Audience & Purpose

Generate: Social Media Posts

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 generate audience-specific social media posts. Key Features of This Assignment Audience-Specific Communication This assignment teaches students to generate social media posts tailored to specific …

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: First Draft

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 previously practiced ChatGPT writing steps to develop their rough draft. Key Features of This Assignment Structured Draft Development Students use ChatGPT to create …

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 …

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 …