Session Overview 

This session, part of the Library’s AI in Your Toolkit series, introduces AI writing tools available to the UCSF community. The workshop is designed for students, staff, and faculty who want to use AI to strengthen their writing and receive targeted feedback on grammar, clarity, organization, and alignment with guidelines and policies. We will focus on writing commonly produced in academic and administrative contexts, including emails, grant proposals, manuscripts, and project reports.

The session will begin with an overview of relevant policies, as well as journal and funder guidance on AI-assisted writing. We will then demonstrate practical prompting strategies for obtaining constructive feedback on draft text. The workshop includes hands-on activities using ChatGPT Enterprise, accessible through UCSF institutional licensing.

We recommend that participants sign up for a ChatGPT Enterprise account before the workshop, although this is not required. Participants are also encouraged to bring an in-progress writing sample to use during the hands-on activities.

Learning Objectives

• Describe journal and funder policies on use and disclosure of AI

• Evaluate whether disclosure is needed for specific examples of AI-assisted writing

• Design chatbot prompts for revising and getting feedback on writing drafts

Accessibility

UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact Ariel Deardorff at ariel.deardorff@ucsf.edu as soon as possible.

People

• Yea-Hung Chen is a Data Science Specialist. He leads workshops on R and provides one-on-one consultations and data science and R.
• Anneliese Taylor is the Head of Scholarly Communication. She offers support with publishing and tracking research impact.
• Eileen Chen is an Education and Research Librarian. She offers support with literature searching, data management, and open access publishing.
• Ariel Deardorff is the Director of Data Science and Open Scholarship. She leads a team focused on empowering researchers to engage with open research and reproducible data-driven science.
• Josephine Tan is an Education and Research Librarian. She teaches curriculum-integrated literature searching and citation management skills and specializes in medical education research.
• Holly Thompson is the Director of Education and Clinical Research Services. She leads a team of librarians who support the education and research missions of the UCSF professional schools, UCSF Health, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.

AI in your Toolkit Series

This session is part of a 6-workshop series called AI in your Toolkit: Critical approaches to using AI in your work. Learn more about the series and find session materials on the AI in your Toolkit website.