Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students explore how AI-generated text can reflect and adapt to an individual’s writing style. The activity examines the implications of AI-assisted authorship, guiding students in refining their digital writing practices, critically assessing AI-generated content, and maintaining their unique voice while engaging with machine-generated text.
Students use AI to simulate reader feedback, apply writing theories, and improve student writing beyond basic grammar checks.
Students participate in a simulated Model UN or Model Congress, where they draft and debate resolutions. The activity emphasizes persuasive writing, research skills, and the ability to articulate and defend positions clearly and effectively.
In this activity, students explore various research project ideas using AI to brainstorm more specific topics.
In this activity, students generate a reading list on a given topic using an AI text generator and then verify the accuracy of the sources.
Students use ChatGPT to produce an essay addressing their problem statement and research question, focusing on exploring the tool’s capabilities in generating initial ideas.
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.
Students use ChatGPT to find definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, helping them expand their vocabulary and improve their writing with more precise word choices.
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 research various text analysis and summarization tools, allowing them to critically evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of these technologies in summarizing technical documents.