Advanced Composition

Generate: Elaboration

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Instruct students to elaborate on their work by asking ChatGPT to use a step-by-step process, offer pros and cons, or compare and contrast. Key Features of This …

Writing: Grammar and Syntax Check

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Treat ChatGPT as a spellchecker and syntax companion. Key Features of This Assignment Comprehensive Proofreading ChatGPT checks for grammatical errors, sentence structure, and other writing elements in …

Writing: Improve Connections between Claims and Evidence

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Create an assignment where students must state a claim, provide support, and ask ChatGPT to analyze the validity of their claim with respect to how universal their …

Writing: Improve Transitions

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Create a game using ChatGPT that teaches students how to mark logical relationships between ideas. Key Features of This Assignment Engaging Learning Experience ChatGPT helps create interactive …

Writing: Improve Topic Sentences

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Demonstrate how ChatGPT can assist in elevating your topic sentences by signaling what’s ahead. Key Features of This Assignment Guided Topic Sentence Creation Students use ChatGPT to …

Writing: Create Counterarguments

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Introduce counterarguments by engaging in a debate with ChatGPT. Key Features of This Assignment Engagement with Counterarguments Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and …

Writing: Request Definitions, Synonyms, and Antonyms

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Instruct students to use ChatGPT as a thesaurus. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Vocabulary Students use ChatGPT to find definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, helping them expand …

Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Tell students to draft an opening paragraph with ChatGPT to avoid the paralysis that accompanies a blank page. Key Features of This Assignment Initial Draft Creation ChatGPT …

Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric

This assignment, by Clancy Ratliff, is from the book Teaching and Generative AI. The Abstract from the article explains: In this essay, I share an assignment that asks students to engage in rhetorical revision of LLM text using a changelog table as a tool to document the revision. To demonstrate to the students what I was asking …

Analyze: Poetry and Figurative Language

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Allow students to use ChatGPT to begin the process of interpreting a poem’s meaning while building their understanding of figurative language and its uses. Key Features of …

Analyze: Summarize Longer Texts

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Encourage students to use ChatGPT to create summaries of longer texts. Key Features of This Assignment Efficiency in Analysis Students learn to leverage ChatGPT for summarizing longer …

Using AI Text as Prompts for Critical Analysis

This assignment, by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this assignment, students are provided with an AI-generated text relevant to a course’s topics and focus and then asked to comment, review, and expand on it using a feature such as “track changes.” In …

Professor Bot: An Exercise in Algorithmic Accountability

This assignment, by Jentery Sayers, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This low-tech, tool-agnostic, small-stakes assignment prompts students to attend to issues of power and governance in artificial intelligence (AI), with an emphasis on what students do not know and may thus want to learn about algorithmic …

Cyborg Texts: A Procedural Creativity Assignment

This assignment, by Jason Boyd, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment engages undergraduate students in the hands-on practice of procedural creativity through playing with, ‘hacking,’ or building text generators that produce creative outputs. Students are asked to draw upon the material covered in lectures and …