Writing Obsolete By Natalie Wexlar: Article Analysis

Summary In the article “Bots Can Write Good Essays But That Doesn't Make Writing Obsolete” by Natalie Wexlar in 2022, she argues that AI is very useful when writing, it shouldn’t cause humans to rely on it for writing. Her purpose for writing this article was to bring awareness as to why AI was being used all over the world and even to what was happening to those who didn't use it. Her intended audience is teachers, parents, and students. In her article she shows many ways that AI is changing writing by saying many different things like “While writing a student is more exposed to complex sentences...” Another thing she states is “...few teachers have received good training on how to do it” In this she refers to teachers being taught how to teach writing. Another quote she says is “Written sentences are more difficult to break down and understand compared to spoken.” And finally she says “students boost their
Introduction Language Evaluation I feel as though Natalie Wexler's article on AI was a very effective article on exposing the growing issue of AI use in a classroom setting. She uses her language to inform the readers of these growing issues. In her article, she used the word “disastrous” to convey her message that the consistent use of AI will end up completely destroying the education and writing taught in schools. This proves how effective her language is because she uses a very powerful word that caught many readers' attention. Another strong word choice she used was the word “cheating.” This word alone has a very negative connotation and it was used in the article when she talked about students using AI to do their work or to avoid doing the work. This word also helps show how effective Wexler’s language was because she used words with deep negative meanings to catch the reader's