This paper was a Workshop Paper. See the full paper which will be presented at CHI 2026: arXiv:2501.10551; As large language models (LLMs) become more powerful and ubiquitous, systems like ChatGPT are increasingly used by students to help them with writing tasks. To better understand how these tools are used, we investigate how students might use an LLM for essay writing, for example, to study the queries asked to ChatGPT and the responses that ChatGPT gives. To that end, we plan to conduct a user study that will record the user writing process and present them with the opportunity to use ChatGPT as an AI assistant. This study's findings will help us understand how these tools are used and how practitioners -- such as educators and essay readers -- should consider writing education and evaluation based on essay writing.

翻译：本文为一篇研讨会论文。完整论文将发表于CHI 2026会议，详见arXiv:2501.10551；随着大型语言模型（LLMs）功能日益强大且应用普及，ChatGPT等系统正被学生越来越多地用于辅助写作任务。为深入理解此类工具的使用方式，本研究通过分析向ChatGPT提出的查询及其生成的回复，探究学生如何运用LLM进行论文写作。为此，我们计划开展一项用户研究，记录用户的写作过程，并为其提供使用ChatGPT作为AI助手的机会。本研究结果将有助于理解此类工具的实际使用模式，并为教育工作者、论文评审者等从业者提供关于写作教学与评估的实践参考。