Genre

Genre Generators

This assignment, by Addison Eldin, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This activity asks students to analyze and create *genre generators*, which are text generators that use the computer to create new instances of a formal written genre. After the instructor introduces the concept through a collaborative …

Synthetic Metacognition: Iterating Prompts with GPTs

This assignment, by Kyle Booten, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment suggests that “prompt engineering”—iteratively tinkering with and refining the set of instructions that guides the output of an LLM—is a worthwhile writing activity that can encourage students to be metacognitive about the “moves” that …

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Genre and Form with Tracery

This assignment, by Mark Sample, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this assignment, students work with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JSON templates in order to design a website that generates new content out of pre-established rules and word banks. No prior coding or web development experience …