El coach de IA no está conectado. Usa «Guía sin IA» para orientación integrada paso a paso, o «Coach IA» para coaching con IA en vivo. / AI coach not connected. Use “Built-in, no AI” for built-in step guidance, or “Live AI” for live AI coaching.
Tu Pana de EscrituraTu Pana
TU COACH DE ESCRITURA · YOUR WRITING COACH
Etapa 1 · Anécdota / Anecdote
Elige un momento específico de tu vida. · Choose one specific moment from your life.
Tu borrador es tuyo. Se guarda automáticamente en este dispositivo — no en ningún servidor. Usa la misma computadora y navegador cada vez.Your draft belongs to you. It saves automatically on this device only — never on a server. Use the same computer and browser each time.
0 palabras · words
Empieza a escribir aquí · Start writing here
Iniciando... · Starting...
Lo que ya has logrado · What you've already accomplished
Primer borrador guardado · First draft saved — Revisión desbloqueada
Las Cinco Preguntas · The Five QuestionsÚsalas con cada respuesta · Use with every responseApoyo · Support▾
①¿Es preciso? · Is it accurate?
¿Las afirmaciones académicas o históricas son verificadas? ¿Necesitan una fuente real?Are factual or academic claims real and verified — or does this need a source?Señal de alerta: "bien documentado en la literatura" sin citar nada. · Red flag: "well-documented in the literature" with no citation.
②¿Es mi voz? · Is this my voice?
¿Todavía suena como la persona específica que vivió esta historia?Does this still sound like the specific person who lived this story?Señal de alerta: "impactó mi identidad cultural" — ¿quién más podría haber escrito esto? · Red flag: "shaped my cultural identity" — who else could have written this?
③¿Es específico? · Is it specific?
¿Hay escenas, personas, palabras, o lugares reales — o se queda abstracto?Are there real scenes, people, words, places — or does it stay abstract?Si no puedes imaginar un momento concreto, la respuesta es demasiado general. · If you can't picture a real moment, it's too general.
④¿Profundiza mi argumento? · Does it deepen my thinking?
¿Profundiza la conexión entre experiencia personal y significado más amplio?Does this deepen the connection between personal experience and larger meaning?Describe vs. analiza: ¿explica el por qué, no solo el qué? · Describes vs. analyzes: does it explain the why, not just the what?
⑤¿Respeta lo que sé? · Does it respect what I know?
¿Generaliza, aplana, o pierde algo que tú sabes desde tu comunidad o cultura?Does this generalize, flatten, or miss something you know from your own community?Tu conocimiento comunitario es evidencia. El coach no puede conocerlo. · Your community knowledge is evidence. The coach cannot know it.
Pasaje seleccionado · Selected passage
¿Qué necesitas? · What do you need?
Recibe ayuda con la escritura · Get writing help
Cambia el ritmo · Change the pace
Habla con tu instructor/a · Talk to your instructor
ENTER para enviar · to send | SHIFT+ENTER nueva línea · new line
Fase completada · Phase complete
Antes de comenzar · Before we begin
Tú ya produces conocimiento. You already produce knowledge.
Tus idiomas, tu historia, tu comunidad, tu manera de ver el mundo
no son obstáculos para la escritura académica.
Son recursos intelectuales. Toca cada uno para reclamarlo como tuyo.
Your languages, your story, your community, your angle of vision —
these are not obstacles to academic writing.
They are intellectual assets. Tap each one to claim it as yours.
My Language(s)
Mis Idiomas
Thinking in more than one language is not confusion — it is range. Code-switching is not a mistake. It is a cognitive skill that monolingual writers do not have.
Pensar en más de un idioma no es confusión. Es amplitud.
Claimed · Reclamado
My Community
Mi Comunidad
Your neighborhood, your family networks, your community's collective memory contain knowledge that no textbook records. You are a primary source.
Tu barrio y tu familia son fuentes primarias de conocimiento.
Claimed · Reclamado
My Journey
Mi Trayectoria
Migration, displacement, and living between worlds sharpens analytical thinking. You understand systems, borders, and power from the inside — not from a chapter.
La migración y el movimiento agudizan el pensamiento crítico.
Claimed · Reclamado
My Positionality
Mi Posicionalidad
Where you stand shapes what you can see. Your angle of vision — shaped by race, class, gender, migration, language — reveals structures that those at the center cannot perceive.
Desde donde estás parado, ves lo que otros no pueden ver.
Claimed · Reclamado
My Story as Evidence
Mi Historia como Evidencia
Your personal experience isn't just anecdote. Connected to history and analysis, it becomes evidence — your life is where the argument starts, not decoration on top of it.
Tu historia personal no es solo anécdota. Conectada al análisis, se convierte en evidencia.
Claimed · Reclamado
Write one thing rooted in your experience that your professor might not know. Escribe algo arraigado en tu experiencia que tu profesor/a quizás no sepa.
This sentence is yours. It will be saved as part of your process report — a reminder that you arrived with knowledge before any institution gave you permission to write.
Esta oración es tuya. Se guardará como parte de tu reporte de proceso.
Saved · Guardado
El Laboratorio
Before you meet your coach · Antes de comenzar 3 min
Bienvenido · Welcome
Your coach is powerful. Your judgment is more powerful.
Tu Pana te ayuda a pensar y revisar — pero no ha vivido tu vida. Tu Pana helps you think and revise — but it has not lived your life.
¿Qué puede perder el coach? · What can the coach miss? ▾
The coach can produce writing that sounds smooth, confident, and completely wrong for your essay. It may miss what you know from your community, your family, or your culture. That is not a failure in you — it is a limitation of the tool.
El coach puede producir texto que suena fluido y seguro — pero completamente equivocado para tu ensayo. Puede perder lo que tú sabes desde tu comunidad, tu familia, o tu cultura.
In the next 3 minutes you'll practice the Five Questions — your critical lens for every piece of feedback. This happens once. Las Cinco Preguntas. Toma 3 minutos. Solo una vez.
Why this matters
Good writers don't accept AI feedback automatically — they question it first. You're about to practice the five questions that make that judgment a habit.
Privacidad · PrivacyTu Pana no crea cuentas. Tu trabajo se guarda solo en este navegador (no en un servidor de Tu Pana) hasta que lo exportes. Cuando le pides ayuda al coach de IA, el texto relevante de tu escritura se envía a través del proxy de Tu Pana a Google Gemini para generar la respuesta; Tu Pana no guarda tu escritura en un servidor. No compartas tu estatus migratorio, número de seguro social, ni información médica con el coach, y exporta tu trabajo con regularidad como respaldo.Tu Pana has no accounts. Your work saves only in this browser (not on a Tu Pana server) until you export it. When you ask the AI coach for help, the relevant text from your writing is sent through Tu Pana's proxy to Google Gemini to generate the response — Tu Pana does not store your writing on a server. Do not share immigration status, Social Security numbers, or medical information with the coach, and export your work regularly as a backup.
Step 1 of 3 · Paso 1 de 3
Read this AI-generated paragraph.
A student asked Tu Pana to help revise their paragraph about growing up in a bilingual home. This is what the AI produced. Read it carefully before you evaluate it.
AI-generated revision suggestion
Growing up in a bilingual household shaped my cultural identity in significant ways. My family's use of Spanish at home allowed me to maintain a connection to my heritage while also navigating the English-speaking world outside. This experience of living between two languages and two cultures is something that many immigrant families face. It reflects the broader challenges of assimilation and cultural preservation that are well-documented in sociological literature. Ultimately, this bilingual upbringing contributed to my development as a person and my understanding of the world around me.
Now you'll apply the Five Questions to this paragraph. There are no trick questions — this is practice, not a test.
Step 2 of 3 · Paso 2 de 3
Apply the Five Questions.
Tap your honest assessment of the AI paragraph for each question. You'll see the reasoning after each choice.
① Accuracy
The AI mentions "sociological literature" on assimilation and cultural preservation. Can you trust this claim as written?
The right move: flag it and verify.
The phrase "well-documented in sociological literature" sounds authoritative but cites nothing. AI routinely produces confident-sounding claims without real sources. Before using any historical or academic statement in your essay, find and read the actual source yourself.
Your coach will never invent citations — but always ask: where does this come from?
② Voice
Does this paragraph still sound like a specific person — with their own memory, language, and way of seeing things?
This paragraph lost its voice.
Phrases like "shaped my cultural identity" could describe anyone. Where is the specific phrase someone in the family said? The word in Spanish that doesn't translate? The exact moment the student felt the difference between the two worlds?
AI smooths writing — and in smoothing it, often erases the details that make it true and powerful. Tu voz importa. Protect it.
③ Specificity
Can you picture a real scene, place, person, or moment from this paragraph?
No scene, no person, no moment.
The paragraph tells us about a bilingual upbringing but never shows it. A strong essay might open with a kitchen table, a word a grandmother used, the first day of school in a new language.
Specificity is not decoration — it is the argument. General claims ask readers to believe you. Specific details make them see.
④ Thinking
Does this paragraph help the reader understand something new about the student's experience and its connection to a larger issue?
Description without analysis.
The paragraph mentions "assimilation and cultural preservation" — but it doesn't explain how or why in a way that reveals new understanding.
The mixed-genre essay asks you to show what your specific story reveals about the larger pattern. That move — from my experience to what my experience helps explain — is the thinking the essay requires.
⑤ Conocimiento · Cultural Knowledge
Does the AI respect what the student knows from their own community, family, or culture? Or does it generalize in ways that erase that knowledge?
The AI generalized what the student knows.
Phrases like "shaped my cultural identity" treat culture as a concept, not as lived knowledge. The student knows specific things: a recipe, a word that has no translation, a ritual, a sound from childhood. AI cannot know these.
When it generalizes, it erases the very knowledge that makes the essay powerful. Tu conocimiento comunitario es evidencia. Do not let the coach replace it with abstractions.
Step 3 of 3 · Paso 3 de 3
You have the Five Questions. Use them every time.
Whenever your coach gives you feedback, pause before acting on it. Run each question. Your judgment overrides the coach's suggestion — every time.
Accuracy
Are factual or academic claims real and verified — or does this need a source?
Voice
Does this still sound like the specific person who lived this story?
Specificity
Are there real scenes, people, words, places — or does it stay abstract?
Thinking
Does this deepen the connection between personal experience and larger meaning?
Cultural Knowledge · Conocimiento Cultural
¿Está el coach generalizando, aplanando, o perdiendo algo que tú sabes desde tu propia experiencia, comunidad, o cultura? · Does this response generalize, flatten, or miss something that you know from your own community?
After every coach response in the revision stages, a quick eval card will appear so you can apply these five questions in real time. Tu coach no ha vivido tu vida. Lo que sabes tú importa.
¿Guardar tu borrador?
Save your first draft?
Tu primer borrador queda protegido al guardar — sigues revisando después. Your first draft is protected when saved — you keep revising afterward.
This is a checkpoint, not a final version. Your words stay yours. Esto es un punto de control, no la versión final. Tus palabras siguen siendo tuyas.
Borrador protegido. · Draft protected.
You wrote this without help. That matters. Escribiste esto sin ayuda. Eso tiene valor.
Tu voz sigue aquí · Your voice is still here
Lo que escribiste se guardó tal como está. · What you wrote is saved, just as it is.
Revision does not erase your voice — it helps the reader hear it more clearly.
When your coach offers a suggestion, you decide what to keep, what to change, and what to ignore.
La revisión no borra tu voz — ayuda al lector a escucharla más claramente. Tú decides qué aceptar, cambiar, o ignorar.
Siguiente: el coach ya puede ayudarte a revisar. Tu borrador guardado queda protegido y no cambia solo. · Next: the coach can now help you revise. Your saved draft stays protected and never changes on its own.
2Conexión / Connection
Lo que sigue · What comes next
Connect your personal memory to a larger historical, social, or cultural context.
Ver ejemplo · Show example
That letter was about thousands of families...
Guardar / Exportar trabajo · Save / Export Work
Guarda tu progreso · Save your progress
Para entregar en clase — usa esto · For class submission — use this
Incluye tu trabajo final + tu reporte de proceso, todo junto. Nada se envía automáticamente — tú tienes que copiarlo o descargarlo y pegarlo en Brightspace. · Includes your final written work + process report together. Nothing is sent automatically — you must copy or download it and paste it into Brightspace yourself.
Otras opciones · Other options
Respaldo y datos · Backup & data
Descarga una copia de seguridad para no perder tu progreso. ¿Cambias de dispositivo? Descárgala aquí y luego usa “Importar trabajo guardado” en el otro. · Download a backup so you do not lose your progress. Switching devices? Download here, then use “Import saved work” on the other device.
Solo el informe del proceso · Process report only
Cuidado — no se puede deshacer · Careful — cannot be undone
Consejo · Tip
Tu trabajo se guarda solo en este navegador. Si usas Safari dentro de Brightspace, los datos pueden borrarse después de 7 días. Exporta tu progreso regularmente como respaldo. / Your work is saved only in this browser. If you use Safari inside Brightspace, data may be cleared after 7 days. Export your progress regularly as backup.
Nota de Proceso · Process Note
Reflexiona sobre tu proceso. Tu trabajo se guarda automáticamente. · Reflect on your process. Your work auto-saves.
Proceso de escritura completo · Writing process complete
Llegaste al final con tu criterio y tu voz intactos. You reached the end with your judgment and voice intact.
Documentaste cómo usaste la IA con criterio. Protegiste tu conocimiento, tu propósito y las decisiones que hacen que este trabajo sea tuyo.
You documented how you used AI with judgment. You protected your knowledge, your purpose, and the decisions that make this work your own.