Research

Study: Summarize Long Articles

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 absorb complex readings more fully. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Comprehension This assignment encourages students to use ChatGPT to distill …

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: Further Develop the Thesis

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 practice writing thesis statements by using ChatGPT as a sounding board. Key Features of This Assignment Iterative Thesis Development Students practice refining their thesis …

Writing: Generate a Thesis

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: Require students to paste the essay assignment prompt into ChatGPT and request a thesis. Key Features of This Assignment Insight into AI Capabilities Students gain a firsthand …

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 …

Analyze: Find the Needle in the Haystack

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 ask for a specific piece of information in a much longer text. Key Features of This Assignment Time Efficiency The assignment teaches students …

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: Hallucinated Sources

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: Require students to verify the existence of quoted sources via the institution’s library website. Key Features of This Assignment Verification of Sources Students are required to verify …

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 …

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 …

Teaching Social Identity and Cultural Bias Using AI Text Generation

This assignment, by Christopher D. Jimenez, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This interactive survey assignment prompts upper-level humanities students to reflect on their social and cultural identities in relation to the textual inputs & outputs of large language models, such as ChatGPT. Successful implementation of the …

The Term Paper Turing Test

This assignment, by Paul Fyfe, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to use an accessible language model to write their term papers—with the goal of fooling the instructor. While initially framed as something sneaky or as a shortcut for writing, the assignment makes …

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 …

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 …