Creative Writing

Generate: Creative Writing as Application

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: Combine creative writing activities with AI tools to bring students’ ideas to life. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Engagement and Retention This assignment leverages the power …

Generate: Poetry as Application

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: Show students how to apply key concepts by generating content-related poems. Key Features of This Assignment Interdisciplinary Learning This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from …

Generate: Role Play

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: Ask students to create personas and then engage in interview-based conversations that simulate real-world scenarios. Key Features of This Assignment Interactive Learning Students create personas and engage …

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 …

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 …

Repetition

This assignment, by Zach Whalen, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Computational text generation is having a moment right now, with large-language models at the forefront of what many people may have in mind when thinking about computer-generated text. A major shortcoming of these approaches—including ChatGPT, Bard, …

Who’s Talking: Dada, Machine Writing, and the Found: RiTa.js for Visual Artists and Writers

This assignment, by kathy wu, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks undergraduate students to generate text using both analog cut up techniques, as well as a simple Markov procedure, and discuss the power relations inherent in found writing processes. Through reading and making, students …

Spellcraft & Translation: Conjuring with AI

This assignment, by Dana LeTriece Calhoun, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment invites undergraduate students to create “spells,” a poem based on a wish, and prompt an LLM to write a spell of its own, then reflect on their input and LLM output compared to …

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 …

Learning about Text Technology through the LLM Generation of Papers

This assignment, by Nick Montfort, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Students are assigned to generate a paper about a highly specific, recent text technology, using a free Large Language Model, and then to reflect on this. Our goals: (1) highlight new aspects of the writing process, …

Understanding Markov Chains

This assignment, by Gabriel Egan, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this undergraduate assignment, students use a manually applied algorithm to generate a Markov Chain from a given short extract of language. Included here are precise instructions with diagrams for two activities where students develop structures …

Made Not Only By Me: Coauthoring a Children’s Book with Text and Image Generation

This assignment, by Brandee Easter, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks undergraduate students to explore image and text generation technologies to create a short, illustrated children’s book. Although text and image generation technologies are different, experimenting with them in parallel challenges students to reflect …

The Grand Exhibition of Prompts

This assignment, by Mark C. Marino and Rob Wittig, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: The Grand Exhibition of Prompts, a netprov In this collaborative creative writing game on a threaded discussion platform students experiment with AI image-making programs, but concentrate on the expressive, literary power of …