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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A challenge for us this fall will be persuading our engineering and science students that they need to learn to write—even in a world with artificial intelligence programs
such as ChatGPT. Presented in the <a href="https://vimeo.com/850326621">following film is an argument for such learning</a>. Please note that the ideas in this film arose from a
<i><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20541">Journal of Engineering Education<span style="font-style:normal"> editorial</span></a></i> written by Professor Catherine Berdanier and me.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please feel free to assign this film to your students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michael Alley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Michael Alley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Teaching Professor, Engineering Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Pennsylvania State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">201 Hammond Bldg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">University Park, PA 16802<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">1-814-867-0251<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">https://www.assertion-evidence.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">https://www.craftofscientificwriting.org</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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