Writing: Improve Topic Sentences
Students use ChatGPT to generate and refine topic sentences based on their thesis statement and key points, ensuring clarity and direction in their writing.
First-Year Composition
Writing: First Draft
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.
Writing: Create Counterarguments
Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and develop counterarguments, which enhances their critical thinking and argumentation skills.
Writing: Generate an Outline
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.
Writing: Further Develop the Thesis
Students practice refining their thesis statements by using ChatGPT as a sounding board, encouraging iterative improvements from initial ideas to more complex arguments.
Writing: Generate a Thesis
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.
Writing: Request Definitions, Synonyms, and Antonyms
Students use ChatGPT to find definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, helping them expand their vocabulary and improve their writing with more precise word choices.
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.
AI & Deepfakes
This activity provides a thorough introduction to deepfakes, including definitions, how they work, and their impact on society, making it accessible even for those with no background knowledge. Students then engage in hands-on activities such as detecting deepfakes and creating their own, supplemented by videos and discussions to reinforce learning.
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.
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.
Writing Against the Machine: Debating with ChatGPT
Students use ChatGPT to generate counterclaims or alternative arguments to their initial thesis. This process helps them refine, extend, and evolve their argumentative skills by considering multiple perspectives.
Synthetic Metacognition: Iterating Prompts with GPTs
Students engage in prompt engineering by iteratively refining and tweaking the set of instructions given to a Large Language Model (LLM). Through a collaborative workshop format, students work in groups to analyze the AI’s output, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and propose improvements.
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.
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.
Critical Assessment and Analysis Exercise
Students compare AI-generated responses to human-written responses, examining differences in style, clarity, and effectiveness.
Transforming Writing Assignments with AI: Approaches for Using Artificial Intelligence for Fostering Student Engagement and Comprehension
Students use AI tools to better comprehend and analyze complex texts, asking AI questions about the texts to deepen their understanding and engagement. Students use AI as a collaborative tool to enhance their own writing process while ensuring their original contribution remains substantial.
AI for Editing
Students use AI-based applications to assist in proofreading and improving their written work, fostering familiarity with modern technological aids in professional writing.