Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students generate text using both analog cut-up techniques and a simple Markov procedure. This exercise introduces them to found art, encouraging them to critically examine issues of property and power in the context of generative text and its sources.
Students use the JavaScript library Tracery to create procedural texts that generate new content based on predefined rules and word banks. This approach explores the power of randomness and variability in text generation, akin to advanced Mad Libs.
This assignment helps students grasp core aspects of narrative theory by requiring them to generate multiple variations of an underlying story. Students use Curveship-js, a JavaScript framework, to implement their narrative variations.
This assignment engages students in the practice of procedural creativity by encouraging them to play with, hack, or build text generators.
Students generate a paper focused on a highly specific and recent text technology and reflect on how LLMs influence the writing process and their own writing practices.
Students choose a dataset to train their language model and analyze the generated output to identify patterns and new meanings. They write a reflective essay to critically consider the affordances, challenges, and generative potential of large language models (LLMs).
Students manually apply an algorithm to generate a Markov Chain from a given text extract, providing a concrete and interactive way to understand probabilistic language generation.
Students collaborate in small groups to produce a creative work and then write a reflective piece about their contribution to the project and the group dynamics.
Students use AI-based applications to assist in proofreading and improving their written work, fostering familiarity with modern technological aids in professional writing.
Students select and read medical journal articles, draft summaries, and revise them, allowing for progressive skill development. The assignment incorporates the use of AI writing systems throughout the process.
Students research various text analysis and summarization tools, allowing them to critically evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of these technologies in summarizing technical documents.