Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block
ChatGPT helps students overcome writer’s block by generating an initial draft of an opening paragraph, allowing students to focus on revising and refining rather than starting from scratch.
Text Generation
Writing: Brainstorming a Topic
ChatGPT helps students break down complex topics into smaller, manageable sub-components, aiding in the generation of a clear thesis and logical argument flow across paragraphs.
Analyze: Qualitative Analysis
Students utilize ChatGPT to identify repetitions, themes, and categories in texts, leveraging its ability to recognize synonyms and related concepts, even with varied diction.
Analyze: Convert to Conversational Language
Students use ChatGPT to convert complex academic texts into conversational language, making challenging concepts more accessible and understandable. By practicing with ChatGPT, students enhance their ability to explain research and projects to non-experts.
Analyze: Poetry and Figurative Language
Students use ChatGPT to engage actively with poetry, facilitating a deeper understanding of figurative language and interpretation.
Analyze: Critique and Interpret
The assignment helps students develop their interpretation skills by engaging with ChatGPT to analyze the structure, themes, and arguments of a text, allowing them to gain a deeper understanding of various texts.
Analyze: Find the Needle in the Haystack
Students develop their ability to craft precise queries for AI tools, learning how to effectively ask for specific pieces of information and improve their research efficiency in handling extensive texts.
Analyze: Summarize Longer Texts
Students use ChatGPT to summarize longer texts, enabling them to quickly grasp the main ideas and focus on higher-order thinking and deeper analysis.
Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics Teaching
This policy, from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, highlights the role of AI in enhancing personalized learning, emphasizing the need for teachers to integrate AI ethically while maintaining their pedagogical and relational expertise.
MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper
This policy, from The Modern Language Association (MLA)-Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Joint Task Force on Writing and AI, provides a comprehensive overview of the implications of AI in writing and literature education.
Artificial Intelligence Writing Tools in Writing Across the Curriculum Settings
This policy, from the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC), emphasizes maintaining authentic writing experiences, integrating AI tools to complement best practices in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), and addressing ethical and practical implications of AI use in educational settings.
Evaluate: Write a Rebuttal
Students craft a detailed rebuttal to the AI-generated argument, focusing on different aspects such as the scope, conclusions, and missing evidence.
Evaluate: Logical Fallacies
Students create arguments using ChatGPT and identify any logical fallacies present in the generated content. Students provide a detailed explanation of how the identified logical fallacies occurred and suggest ways to prevent them.
Evaluate: ChatGPT’s Predictions and Extrapolations
Students generate predictions using ChatGPT and critically assess the output. The assignment emphasizes an analytical approach to evaluating hypothetical scenarios generated by ChatGPT. Students must go beyond simple fact-checking and use reasoned analysis to diagnose the plausibility of the predictions.
Evaluate: Soundness of the Argument
Students analyze how facts are assembled into an argument, focusing on the validity of the connective logic. They are encouraged to look beyond the individual facts and assess whether the conclusions drawn are logically supported by the premises.
Generate and Enact a Writing Style: Examining Writing Style Though Generative AI
Students collaborate with peers from different disciplines, using AI text generators. The collaboration enhances their understanding of writing styles across various fields and fostering diverse perspectives in their work.
Using AI Text as Prompts for Critical Analysis
Students are provided with AI-generated texts relevant to the course topics and are asked to comment, review, and expand on these texts using text-editing software.
Genre Generators
Students begin by collaboratively analyzing implementations of text generators, such as Christopher Strachey’s Love Letter Generator. Next, students work in groups to create non-executable conceptual programs designed to produce new instances of chosen genres.
Decoding an AI Bot’s Chatting Pattern: Text Generating Technology Analysis Assignment
Students engage in sustained conversations with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, analyzing the bots’ writing and thinking patterns. The assignment prompts students to consider the ethical implications of using AI chatbots, including issues related to plagiarism, authorship, and the potential displacement of human labor.
Repetition
This assignment serves as a beginner-level programming exercise that introduces students to the concept of iteration using for loops. By writing code that repeats a word or phrase 50,000 times, students gain a fundamental understanding of how loops work in programming.
AI in First Year Writing Courses
The assignment introduces an “AI Standards of Conduct” framework that differentiates between AI-assisted and AI-generated writing. The assignment encourages students to reflect on the ethical implications of using AI in writing.
Professor Bot: An Exercise in Algorithmic Accountability
Students explore and reflect on algorithmic accountability through a speculative scenario where an AI called Professor Bot grades entrance essays.
The Term Paper Turing Test
Students use accessible language models to generate parts of their term papers. This hands-on experiment helps students explore the capabilities and limitations of AI in writing, as well as the ethical dimensions of using such tools.
Promoting Ethical Artificial Intelligence Literacy
By comparing AI-generated outputs with their own work and reflecting on these comparisons, students develop enhanced metacognitive skills, which are crucial for their personal and professional growth.