The effort it will take to make ChatGPT write an essay paragraph by paragraph is not worth getting caught cheating. But there are ethical ways it can help you along the way.

The essay, in particular the undergraduate essay, has been the center of humanistic pedagogy for generations. It is the way we teach children how to research, think, and write.

If students don't confess to using ChatGPT to write their essays, professors say AI plagiarism can be hard to prove.