Harnessing AI Tools to Enhance English Writing Skills in Undergraduate Education

AI tools, especially ChatGPT, play a vital role in enhancing English writing skills. The objective centers on probing how it assists undergraduate learners in improving their writing skills, from making useful notes to drafting formal letters in their daily life. The study explores the efficiency of AI tool ChatGPT upon improving writing skills among undergraduate learners through a quasi-experiment in a few selected topics: letter writing, email writing, paragraph writing, and report writing. The research gap is that the undergraduates lack adequate skills in drafting the above topics in English language. Insights are also drawn from the real-life instances of the drafted letters by the undergraduate learners to the higher authorities, i.e., the Principal and the HoDs requesting them to issue various certificates, such as study, bonafide, transfer, and late fee payment permission letters. With the help of Quasi-experiment method of pre-test and post-test, students were subjected to formal letter drafting, email writing, paragraph writing, and report writing. The post-tests gave better results that the students have improved on grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, accuracy coherence. Hence, the study suggests that AI-driven tools can enhance writing skills of undergraduates in English Language. To sum up, the study highlights the need of harnessing AI tool ChatGPT to write better writing skills in English Language.