Artificial Intelligence: In Your Phone and In Your Head

Authors

Gabrielle A. Johnson, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow

Semester of Creation

Spring 4-14-2025

Submission Type

Book

Professor Name

Amelia Lewis

Course Number

ENGL 1102

Course Title

English Composition II

Description of Work

Artificial intelligence (AI) innovation has gained traction in recent years due to large investments towards improving the average person’s daily life. While operating the parent companies of common platforms such as Amazon, Instagram, and Microsoft, America’s richest citizens have spent billions on improving and researching the recent technology. AI offers ‘shortcuts’ to many daily inconveniences, fostering an over-reliance on the technology that has also led to human shortcomings. By using artificial intelligence, students can easily fill in homework answers with no calculations or critical thinking necessary. Beyond academics, relying on this technology compromises a broader necessity: human connection. With chatbots and digital assistants like Microsoft’s “Copilot” built into computers software, social media, and search engines, these innovations are continually swallowing opportunities for people to reach out and grow new communities. Undetectable AI has especially seeped into younger generations, and people feel this change through the growing lack of compassion and proper communication exhibited by teenagers. AI erodes diligence and encourages people to neglect their integrity to gain convenience. Since the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, people have increasingly turned to technology to fill the gaps carved by limited human interaction. This paper explores how artificial intelligence technology affects human ambition, behavior, and overall social health in people across the world. The final goal is to understand these consequences and raise awareness for holding the large software companies responsible as well as understand artificial intelligence’s rising place in the world.

Description of Assignment

Final Research Paper

Length: 8-10 pages (Minimum is one sentence on the 8th page. Remember tha pages do not count toward your total)

Format: MLA format with a Works Cited page

This is a developed research paper that incorporates an academic argument, a variety of sources with a focus on academic ones, and a clear viewpoint on your topic.

Required Sources

• 7 total sources minimum requirement, with at least 5 academic sources. You must find the 5 academic sources on your own (so, no class sources).
• Remember this is a minimum. You may go over 7 sources or use more than just one of the class sources as long as you meet these minimums.
• You will be expected to provide your sources to me if I cannot find them myself. Not doing so can result in a lowered grade.
• Feel free to use anything we have read in class for your papers.
• Some aspect of our course theme of social sustainability should be incorporated. This should be obvious and use some exact terminology or themes.

Prompt

This is an extended research paper that is the culmination of all the skills we have practiced during the semester with analysis, research, and critical thinking combined with a theoretical approach and professional, specialized language. You will write this research paper with an academic argument, using at least one aspect of social sustainability in order to practice entering a scholarly conversation.

Keep in mind that you do not have to use every aspect of any of these. You can write a paper that focuses on “long-term over short-term goals” or interconnectedness or community cohesion where community can be an entire country or a very specific community, such as KSU college students.

The actual topic of this paper is the project we have been working on with our previous assignments with the research proposal and annotated bibliography.

Remember that you are taking a theoretical approach and entering an ongoing scholarly conversation through sources and terminology to help guide the exploration of your topic. This extended research paper practices critical thinking, use of specialized language, and using evidence and research to back up your ideas that will be valuable for projects and papers required later in your college careers, as well as possibly even your actual careers beyond college.

Academic Goals

The following learning objectives will be achieved with this paper.

• Composing a rhetorically-situated, researched text that enters an ongoing conversation, integrating relevant sources.
• Creating an academic argument supported by sources used as evidence
• Evaluating sources and incorporating them in effective ways
• Practicing working through the writing process, including brainstorming, drafting, peer review, revision, and publication.

Expectations

If you are struggling with anything, then keep in mind that I am available through D2L, email (alewi171@kennesaw.edu), groupme, and office hours/ appointments on Zoom/Teams. Additionally, you will receive feedback on smaller assignments before the major, final paper is due. This does not have to be a stressful, unpleasant assignment, but it is up to you to be ahead of the game.

Major Paper Rubric

There are ten elements of your paper that I will consider and each of these elements will earn you between 0-10 points depending on how successful you are with that element. This is a slightly modified version of the major paper rubric used earlier in the semester with the Analysis Paper.

1. Is the introduction successful? Is it clear, relevant, and interesting? Does it establish the topic of the paper successfully?
2. Is the thesis statement clear, relevant, and does it establish an argument?
3. Are there clear transitions between ideas and paragraphs? Does the paper flow well with well-connected paragraphs?
4. Is there an academic argument evident throughout the paper? Is that argument complex and nuanced? Is it well-developed? Is it thoughtful or creative?
5. Does the paper have analysis and avoid just being a summary? Is the analysis well-developed?
6. Does the paper have relevant and frequent examples and details? Does the paper use appropriate evidence to prove the argument? Does it have appropriate direct quotations or paraphrases, with the necessary signal phrases and proper citations?
7. Is the paper effectively organized? Is the paper organized in a way that makes sense in order to build the argument?
8. Does the paper have college level sentence structure, grammar, and vocabulary? Are there varying sentence structures, appropriate language and tone, and minimal grammatical mistakes?
9. Does the paper have a conclusion? Is the conclusion insightful? Does it do more than just repeat what has already been said?
10. Does the paper fulfill the spirit of the assignment in an engaged and thoughtful manner? Does it relate to social sustainability, cultural identity, and/or language terms in a clear manner?

Other Possible Deductions

• If your paper does not meet minimum requirements, then you can expect major deductions. So, -10 for every academic source you are short or an automatic failing grade if it does not respond to the prompt sufficiently (so if you turn in a paper that does not relate to our subject matter at all and has none of the mandatory sources, for example).
• No Works Cited Page is an automatic -10 deduction.
• Length deductions will be -5 points for every half page the paper is short.
• MLA formatting Deductions (-1 for each minor problem such as punctuation for in-text citations, -2 for medium issues such as not having a page number header, and -5 for major issues such as not having citations or signal phrases).

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