Critical and Creative Thinking (UG03). Evaluating an AI response: a planning tool for your 1,000-word essay.
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Each question below helps you build one part of a paragraph. You answer in your own words, then connect your answers into a paragraph. These questions follow the sections and bullet points of your assessment brief, so you always know why you are being asked.
Your official brief decides. This guide follows the UG03 essay assessment brief (50% of the module grade, deadline 14:00 CET, Wednesday 2 December 2026, submitted through Turnitin via Moodle). If anything here differs from the brief or from what your lecturer tells you, follow the brief and your lecturer.
No AI for any part of this assessment. Your brief says you must not use AI for finding sources, generating ideas, generating an essay structure, translation, writing, or editing. This guide gives you questions only. It does not tell you what is right or wrong in the AI response, and it does not write sentences for you. The research, the judgements and the writing must be yours.
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Essay structure
Section names and word ranges as in the brief. Total: 1,000 words. Going more than 10% above or below (under 900 or over 1,100) will likely affect your grade. The reference list and AI Declaration are not counted.
Section
Words
Job of this section
1. Initial Evaluation of AI Response
150-200
Your first impressions: what seems convincing, what seems questionable, and how you will verify it.
2. Analysis of Strengths and Weakness of AI Response
450-500
Critically analyse the response using your Verification Record: what can and cannot be verified, biases, overgeneralisations, unsupported claims, and omissions.
3. Evaluation of Your Verification Process
150-200
Explain and evaluate how you checked the claims, how you chose your sources, and what difficulties you met.
4. Verification Record
150-200
A table: at least five claims, at least five different academic sources, each with evidence and a verdict.
5. Reference List
not counted
Sources in APA, alphabetical order.
6. AI Declaration
not counted
Your own confirmation that you used no AI in any part of this assessment.
Suggested order of work. Write section 1 first, as honest first impressions, before you start checking. Then research and fill in the Verification Record. Section 2 and 3 are easier once the record is filled in, because section 2 must use the material in it. The builder keeps the brief's order; you can work in any order.
Requirements checklist
From the brief. Tick things off as you go. Ticks are saved with your work.
How your essay is assessed
The brief's rubric has four criteria: Structure (required sections, linking words, structure that helps your argument), Content (relevant content and sources, a well-reasoned argument, critical thinking), Referencing (in-text citations and reference list present, complete and matching), and Formatting and Writing (clear writing, few errors, correct formatting). Read the full rubric at the end of your brief.
The universal paragraph formula
Use this in any paragraph that makes a judgement, adapting it to the job of the paragraph.
1. PointWhat am I claiming?
2. EvidenceWhat supports it? Which source?
3. ExplanationWhat does the evidence mean?
4. LinkHow does this connect to my judgement of the AI response?
Every judgement you make about the AI response must be traceable to evidence in your Verification Record. If you cannot point to the evidence, check again or rethink the judgement.
Essay builder
For each paragraph: answer the questions in your own words, press Put my answers in the draft box, then edit the result into a real paragraph. New here? Open Guide in the steps bar first. Section 4, the Verification Record, is a table in its own step.
Word count
4. Verification Record
150 to 200 words. You must verify at least five claims and use at least five different academic sources. This table counts in your word total.
For each row: copy the claim from the AI response; give the details of the academic source or sources you used; give evidence from the sources that supports or disagrees with the claim; and choose a verdict: Accurate, Partially accurate, or Inaccurate.
5. Reference List and 6. AI Declaration
Neither is counted in the word total. The reference list comes first, then the AI Declaration, both at the end of your essay.
Your declaration must confirm that you have not used AI in any part of this assessment, including research, planning, finding sources, writing and editing. Write it yourself.
Full draft
All your sections in order, ready to copy into your document. Formatting, page numbers, and layout are your job in your document: check the format required in your brief.
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