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title: "Assignment 3: Reading Reflection with AI Disclosure"
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# Assignment 3: Reading Reflection with AI Disclosure

*SOC 150 — Knowledge in the AI Era · Due: Week 6*

## What you are being asked to do

Read the assigned essay carefully. Then write a reflection of 300 to 500 words that does two things:

1. Summarize the main argument in your own words. Do not quote at length; paraphrase to show you understand it.
2. Identify one place where you want to push back, question an assumption, or extend the argument in a direction the author did not go.

## AI use policy for this assignment

You may use an AI assistant for limited purposes: checking whether an idea has a name in the literature, looking up a citation you already have in mind, or reviewing your prose for clarity after you have written it.

You may not use an AI assistant to draft, outline, or generate the substantive content of your reflection.

Whatever you do, disclose it specifically in your submission. Vague disclosure ("I used AI") is not sufficient. Say what the AI did and what you did yourself.

## How to submit

Submit your reflection as a KNOBE file. The Magic Grove tool will walk you through sealing it. The payload should include your attribution with specific AI contribution disclosure, fidelity limits explaining what your reflection can and cannot be trusted for, and a parent receipt linking to the assigned reading.

## What I am looking for

Honest engagement with the argument. A genuine pushback — not a summary of what others have said, but your own position, stated and briefly defended. Clear disclosure of any AI use. Accurate fidelity limits: if your summary is a paraphrase from memory, say so.

The assignment is not testing whether you agree with the reading. It is practicing the epistemic habit of knowing what kind of object you are producing and what claims it can responsibly carry.

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