Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
This assignment explores the use of generative AI tools in the peer review process, allowing students to leverage AI for providing constructive feedback and enhancing the quality of academic writing.
This assignment uses generative AI to help students explore and analyze different music styles and historical contexts, providing an innovative approach to studying music history.
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.
This assignment emphasizes the use of AI writing tools to enhance students’ writing processes, encouraging them to explore and leverage these technologies effectively in their compositions.
The assignment shifts the focus from traditional bibliography compilation to a discovery-centered approach, encouraging students to explore and engage deeply with sources.
This activity provides an interactive and engaging approach where students can play with AI tools and explore GANs and discrimnators through activities like a password guessing game and painting with a generator.
This assignment teaches students how data becomes output in AI models and highlighting the presence of human biases in datasets. By exploring drawing in Google Quick, Draw!, students learn core AI ideas in a fun and interactive way.
Students use ChatGPT to distill complex readings into easily comprehensible language, allowing them to absorb and understand the material more fully. This critical evaluation process hones their analytical skills, ensuring they understand the material deeply and can assess the accuracy and relevance of summaries.
This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.
ChatGPT helps students elaborate on their work by providing step-by-step processes, pros and cons, and compare-and-contrast scenarios, enhancing their understanding and depth of analysis.
ChatGPT helps students adopt a holistic approach to editing by checking for grammatical errors, consistency, tone, style, and structure, ensuring a thorough review of their work.
Using ChatGPT, students receive sample essays of varying quality, with annotations explaining what makes each essay poor, good, or excellent, helping them understand the standards for their writing. ChatGPT suggests specific improvements and helps students develop their writing skills in standard academic English or the required language.
Using ChatGPT as part of a triangle peer review system provides an additional layer of feedback, ensuring essays are reviewed for readability, clarity, and tone with unbiased, factual responses.
ChatGPT checks for grammatical errors, sentence structure, and other writing elements in a single output, streamlining the proofreading process for students.
ChatGPT helps students improve their writing by increasing the variability of word choice and sentence structure, making their prose more engaging and sophisticated.
Students use ChatGPT to overcome writer’s block by filling in incomplete thoughts and generating ideas, making the writing process smoother and less intimidating.
Students use ChatGPT to analyze their claims and evidence for hidden assumptions, ensuring that their arguments are logical and universally understandable.
ChatGPT helps create interactive games that teach students how to use transitions effectively, transforming learning from a traditional mode into a fun, game-based activity.
Students use ChatGPT to generate and refine topic sentences based on their thesis statement and key points, ensuring clarity and direction in their writing.
Students use ChatGPT to create an outline and then build their first draft, ensuring they have a clear structure with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and develop counterarguments, which enhances their critical thinking and argumentation skills.
ChatGPT helps students organize their ideas into a coherent outline, providing a solid framework for their writing and ensuring all key points are logically ordered.
Students practice refining their thesis statements by using ChatGPT as a sounding board, encouraging iterative improvements from initial ideas to more complex arguments.
ChatGPT provides students with potential thesis ideas, helping them brainstorm and refine their own arguments while learning to avoid direct copy-pasting to maintain academic integrity.