Generate: Elaboration

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 elaborate on their work by asking ChatGPT to use a step-by-step process, offer pros and cons, or compare and contrast. Key Features of This …

Writing: Holistic Editing

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: Teach students to edit using a well-rounded approach with the help of ChatGPT. Key Features of This Assignment Comprehensive Editing ChatGPT helps students adopt a holistic approach …

Writing: Improve Prose

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 use ChatGPT to revise their final drafts using standard academic English (or the language you require for your course). Key Features of This Assignment …

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 …

Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block

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 draft an opening paragraph with ChatGPT to avoid the paralysis that accompanies a blank page. Key Features of This Assignment Initial Draft Creation ChatGPT …

Analyze: Qualitative Analysis

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 use ChatGPT to perform qualitative analysis and then evaluate the output. Key Features of This Assignment Pattern Identification Students utilize ChatGPT to identify repetitions, …

Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric

This assignment, by Clancy Ratliff, is from the book Teaching and Generative AI. The Abstract from the article explains: In this essay, I share an assignment that asks students to engage in rhetorical revision of LLM text using a changelog table as a tool to document the revision. To demonstrate to the students what I was asking …

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 …

Using LLMs as Peer Reviewers for Revising Essays

This assignment, by Antonio Byrd, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this assignment, undergraduates use large language models (LLMs) to assist in revising their essay drafts by asking LLMs to respond to common peer review prompts. Students learn prompt engineering and develop rhetorical judgments on the …

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 …

The Paranoid Memorandum: A Generative AI Exercise for Professional Communication

This classroom activity, by Jason Crider, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This classroom activity engages students in an undergraduate technical and professional writing course in the critical evaluation of workplace communication alongside the specter of AI writing platforms. In small groups, students draft …