Assignments

AI for Editing

This assignment, by Nupoor Ranade, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to generate a complex essay using an AI text generation tool, edit the essay using principles taught in class to improve the readability score of the generated content. Students …

Professional Writing for Healthcare

This assignment, by Heidi McKee, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this project, via a series of scaffolded assignments, students selected and read medical journal articles and then drafted and revised research summaries for lay audiences, exploring, analyzing, and integrating the use of …

Translating a Policy Document into Plain English

This assignment, by Timothy Laquintano, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks undergraduate students to translate a complex policy document into plain English and then compare their output to the output of a large language model asked to do the same task. …

Text Generators in Technical Communication: Summarizing Technical Documents

This assignment, by Douglas Eyman, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to research a wide range of text analysis and summarization tools and carry out an assessment task to gauge how well these tools can summarize technical documents. The students …

Analysis of Iterations of Responses to Human Prompts: ChatGPT and Automated Writing

This assignment, by Huiling Ding, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Generative AI and large language models such as GPT-3.5 introduce new tools and challenges to writing classrooms. This assignment aims to both introduce students to these new tools and to help them cultivate …