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:
Teach students via “graduated” prompts how to be specific and detailed to maximize ChatGPT output.
Key Features of This Assignment
- Graduated Prompting
- The assignment teaches students to use graduated prompts, starting with broad inquiries and progressively adding more details, helping them understand how specificity impacts the quality and accuracy of ChatGPT’s responses.
- Contextual Detail
- Students learn to provide context and specific requests in their prompts, which enhances the relevance and usefulness of the AI-generated responses, allowing for more precise and detailed information retrieval.
- Comparative Analysis
- By comparing responses to general and detailed prompts, students develop critical thinking skills, enabling them to assess the effectiveness of their queries and understand the importance of detailed and contextualized information in communication.
Find the full version of this resource on the University of Central Florida OER repository.