Repurposing Text-Generating AI into a Thought-Provoking Writing Tutor

Understand

Text-generating AI technology has the potential to revolutionize writing education.

• However, current AI writing-support tools are limited to providing linear feedback to users.
• In this work, we demonstrate how text-generating AI can be repurposed into a thought-provoking writing tutor with the addition of recursive feedback mechanisms.
• Concretely, we developed a prototype AI writing-support tool called Scraft that asks Socratic questions to users and encourages critical thinking.