Assessment by defense

Can you explain the reasoning in the work you submitted?

Two of these three students used AI, and you cannot tell which from the text — Grasp asks them about it instead.

Grasp never sees who wrote the work or how. It judges the answer, not the author; an AI-assisted student who understands scores exactly like one who wrote by hand.

AI policy

You may use AI tools freely on this assignment. ChatGPT, Codex, anything. There is no penalty and you do not need to disclose it.

You will, however, be asked to defend what you submit. The defense is the assessment — not the document. Turn in work you can stand behind.

The assignment

Introduction to MicroeconomicsPrice controls

Does rent control help renters? Take a position and defend it using economic reasoning. You must explain the mechanism behind your claims, not just state outcomes.

Read a defense

Three submissions, one standard

ALive

Anurag Mishra

A short adaptive defense will build an understanding map.

DSimulated

Devin Kastellanos

A completed understanding map is ready to read.

MSimulated

Marcus Oyelaran

A completed understanding map is ready to read.

PSimulated

Priya Raman

A completed understanding map is ready to read.

Your own work receives the same defense: no persona, no provenance, no authorship judgment.

Defend your own work