Students using generative AI tools for academic writing

Issue 34 (2025) of the open-access Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) has been published. I will highlight an article that details how a sample of 30 students used different AI tools in the early stages of assignment-writing:
Johnston, H., Eaton, M., Henry, I., Deeley, E.-M., & Parsons, B. N. (2025). Discovering how students use generative artificial intelligence tools for academic writing purposes. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (34). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi34.1301
"The aim of this project was to identify ways in which students are using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technologies for the planning and researching stage of essay style assignments. The study recruited 30 students from various subject areas and levels of study and with different self-reported levels of confidence in using GAI tools. Each student was given three essay questions to choose from and 50 minutes to research their topic, make notes from sources, and put together an essay plan, using GAI tools if they deemed them useful. .. 21 (70%) used GAI technologies within their process." 
The whole of JLDHE issue 34 is at https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/issue/view/50
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