Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
This activity engages students in understanding and addressing the impact of AI-generated deepfakes through creating a press release. The focus is on developing fact-based, balanced written communication aimed at educating the general public about deepfakes.
This assignment integrates AI transcription tools into writing activities, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity, critical evaluation of AI accuracy and refining transcriptions into polished documents.
Students engage in the hands-on development of chatbot prototypes, applying their prompt writing skills to create functional and responsive AI applications.
Students develop their rhetorical analysis skills by examining and creating prompts, learning how to craft questions that elicit thoughtful and effective responses. Their revision work focuses on documents related to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.
Students learn how to tailor their resume bullet points to specific job descriptions and then participate in a peer review process with class members.
Students use AI tools to perform the initial transcription of qualitative data, and then they manually verify and correct the AI-generated transcriptions. The assignment concludes with discussion of the differences between the two methods of transcription.
Students analyze real-world case studies that illustrate the potential pitfalls and ethical considerations of AI applications, enhancing their understanding of AI’s impact on society.
The assignment emphasizes collaboration with AI tools to enhance creativity and innovation in design, allowing students to explore how AI can contribute to the narrative creation process.
This assignment leverages generative AI to assist students in generating a wide range of ideas during the early stages of the writing process, enhancing their creativity and brainstorming capabilities.
This assignment integrates AI tools into the collaborative writing process, includes a research component where students investigate the implications of AI in professional communication, and asks students to use their research findings to create a professional document using AI tools.
This assignment focuses on the importance of revision in the writing process, guiding students through multiple stages of refining their drafts to improve clarity, coherence, and overall quality.
By using ChatGPT to generate key branding elements, students can enhance their marketing skills and learn the importance of effective communication in branding.
Students brainstorm new business ideas by combining their creativity and personal interests with course content. By using ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, students can evaluate, refine, and create business plans that are directly tied to their skills and the needs of their target audiences.
Students create personas and engage in role-playing interviews with ChatGPT, simulating real-world scenarios and making the learning experience more interactive and engaging.
Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and develop counterarguments, which enhances their critical thinking and argumentation skills.
Students use ChatGPT to find definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, helping them expand their vocabulary and improve their writing with more precise word choices.
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.
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. Students in professional writing courses can use these skills as they write memos and reports.
Students use ChatGPT to summarize longer texts, enabling them to quickly grasp the main ideas and focus on higher-order thinking and deeper analysis.
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 translate a complex policy document into plain English, enhancing their ability to simplify and clarify technical content for broader audiences.
Students research various text analysis and summarization tools, allowing them to critically evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of these technologies in summarizing technical documents.
Students generate prompts, collect consecutive responses from ChatGPT, and analyze these iteration. By summarizing, synthesizing, and editing AI responses, and conducting library research, students examine the ethical implications of AI in writing.