Style & Tone

Study: Question Creation

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 AI tools to generate questions for self-quizzing on course context. Key Features of This Assignment Customizable Quiz Generation This assignment shows students how …

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: 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: Analyze Readability and Tone

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 triangle peer review using ChatGPT to cross-check for clarity and tone. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Peer Review Using ChatGPT as part of …

Writing: Burstiness

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: Utilize ChatGPT to enhance writing techniques. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Diction and Syntax ChatGPT helps students improve their writing by increasing the variability of word …

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, …

Analyze: Convert to Conversational 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: Encourage students to use ChatGPT to simplify language when reading complex texts or learning difficult concepts. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Comprehension Students use ChatGPT to …

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 …

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 …

Prompt Engineering: Specified Style

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Ask students to exercise their creativity by asking ChatGPT for explanations or summaries delivered “in …

Prompt Engineering: Tone

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Make an assignment for students to obtain ChatGPT results that match a certain tone. Key …

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 …

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 …

Translating a Policy Document into Plain English

This assignment, by Timothy Laquintano, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks undergraduate students to translate a complex policy document into plain English and then compare their output to the output of a large language model asked to do the same task. …