You should have a clean final draft from Lesson 24 ready. Today you run it through AI in Critic mode: not "rewrite this for me", but "tell me what is weak and why".
If you do not have your Lesson 24 draft, use your Lesson 23 first draft or another short piece from your Communication Portfolio.
You decide what to take and what to ignore. Then you write a short AI Critic Reflection for your Communication Portfolio, with an honest disclosure note. That reflection is the only portfolio file today.
Four words you will use today:
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| AI critic: AI points at weak spots and says why, instead of ghost-writing. | You stay the editor. | "Your last paragraph starts a new point and never finishes it." |
| Disclosure: a one-line note naming the tool mode and the job. | Honest use is a professional habit. | "I used AI in Critic mode for this revision." |
| Verification: check any fact or rewrite before you keep it. | Confident tone is not proof. | AI said the shop in my draft closes at six; I checked its opening hours and kept my own time. |
| Ownership: you can explain the change in your own words. | If you cannot explain it, leave it out. That is normal: keep what you can stand over. | I fixed two run-on ands; I left the dramatic adjective because this is for my tutor. |
Worked example. AI said: "Add a dramatic adjective here for impact," and also: "You used and five times in two sentences." The student ignored the adjective (the piece is for a tutor, not a magazine) and fixed two of the ands. Disclosure went at the end. That is ownership: keep what you can explain, leave the rest.
AI can work in three modes. Drafter writes a first version for you to edit. Critic tells you what is weak and why. Explainer explains a rule or idea until you can say it back yourself. Today you use Critic only, so nobody pastes a full AI rewrite into the portfolio.
Four bits of AI feedback on a draft. For each reply, use the three check questions (the tells) and commit to a verdict, then read the reasoning. The skill is spotting help you can own, and leaving a rewrite that would no longer be your writing.
If your teacher says time is short, do the first two with the class and the last two on your own.
Get a critique extract first (about 5 minutes). Same reflection either way:
Tell me what is weak about this and why. Do not rewrite it. Copy 3–5 lines of the reply into your notes.Then write the portfolio piece in the draft table on this page. Paste the short extract, say what you took and what you ignored (and why), name one change you can explain in your own words (or say you left the draft unchanged), and end with the disclosure line. When it is clean, copy it into your Communication Portfolio folder as m1_l25_ai_critic_reflection_<your-initials>.docx (or the format you already use).
Minimum if time is short (enough to file before the bell): extract + one take with a reason + one ignore with a reason + the disclosure line.
Talk this through with the person beside you (or think it through if you are working alone):
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