Argument

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 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 …

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: Critique and Interpret

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 provide an interpretation of a text. Key Features of This Assignment Modeling Critical Thinking Students can use ChatGPT to see examples …

Evaluate: Bias

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: Assign students to prompt ChatGPT to provide a detailed output (ideally on a topic you pre-select), then require them to evaluate to what extent the software’s answer …

Evaluate: Write a Rebuttal

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 first obtain an argument from ChatGPT, then craft a rebuttal. Key Features of This Assignment Argument Acquisition Students are instructed to obtain an argument …

Evaluate: Logical Fallacies

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: Direct students to create an argument in ChatGPT, then identify any logical fallacies. Key Features of This Assignment Identification of Logical Fallacies Students create arguments using ChatGPT …

Evaluate: Soundness of the Argument

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 student task to evaluate ChatGPT’s argument for its flow and logic. Key Features of This Assignment Evaluation of Argument Structure Students are tasked with evaluating …

Generate and Enact a Writing Style: Examining Writing Style Though Generative AI

This assignment, by John J Silvestro, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to develop a more critical and actionable understanding of the concept of writing style through the use of AI text generators. Writing style is a difficult concept to teach given the …

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 …

Writing Against the Machine: Debating with ChatGPT

This assignment, by Justin Lewis & Ted Wayland, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment challenges students to use LLMs to map the counterarguments to their main claims through a process of counterclaiming. By writing prompts that position the AI as argumentative adversary, students can refine, …

AI in First Year Writing Courses

This assignment, by Marc Watkins, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This chapter discusses the integration of generative AI (GenAI) in education, particularly in first-year writing courses. Recognizing the transformative potential of GenAI, the assignment proposes framing principles to guide students towards ethical and responsible AI use …

Critical Assessment and Analysis Exercise

This assignment, by Nathan Murray and Elisa Tersigni, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks first-year critical writing students to evaluate the reliability, factuality, and internal reasoning of three anonymized texts, one written by AI, that present conflicting opinions or information. By considering the strengths …

Transforming Writing Assignments with AI: Approaches for Using Artificial Intelligence for Fostering Student Engagement and Comprehension

This assignment, by Daniel Hutchinson (History) and Erin Jensen (English), is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks first-year undergraduate history and English students to use AI writing models to aid in accessing and understanding readings on specific topics. Students used AI to understand the texts …