Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students can use AI chatbots and details from this activity to convert text into emoji sequences and vice versa, enhancing their skills in interpreting and conveying meaning through alternative communication methods.
This activity involves using AI tools to summarize text, helping students develop skills in condensing information while retaining key points.
Through this activity, students engage with AI chatbots to deepen their understanding of complex concepts or issues. The same strategy can also be used to help students to understand readings.
In this activity, students explore various research project ideas using AI to brainstorm more specific topics.
Students break their writing goals down into manageable objectives using AI tools. The activity encourages detailed planning and organization, enabling students to tackle complex writing tasks with a clear, step-by-step approach.
This activity helps students create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for their writing projects, enhancing their planning and execution of writing tasks.
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.
Students identify the AI-generated piece from a set of three texts, developing their ability to discern subtle differences in writing styles and content.
Students engage with AI to learn new concepts tailored to their individual needs. They use the experience to receive and integrate feedback from the AI on their reflections and learning progress.
Teams receive AI-generated coaching to improve their collaborative writing process. The AI provides insights on group dynamics, task allocation, and communication, enhancing the overall quality of the team’s written output.
Students submit their writing to an AI tool to receive feedback on various aspects, such as clarity, coherence, and grammar.
This assignment establishes explicit guidelines for when and how students can use AI, categorized into red, yellow, and green lights.
Students diagnose and correct common sentence problems in their writing by identifying symptoms, understanding errors, proposing remedies, and reflecting on the learning process, with optional use of generative AI tools for assistance.
Students conduct preliminary research to assess the interest, relevance, and manageability of a chosen topic before committing to a long-term project, by setting criteria, searching for mainstream and scholarly views, and reflecting on how to refine the topic.
Students explore techniques for crafting precise AI prompts through iterative refinement and rhetorical strategy development.
Students refine their writing by crafting precise and effective prompts, improving their ability to convey specific ideas clearly and accurately.
Students engage in crafting and refining prompts to elicit specific responses from LLMs, enhancing their understanding of precise and effective communication.
Students reflect on ethical considerations in the context of communication and technology by comparing ideas in an Immanual Kant essay to current events related to artificial intelligence.
Students engage in creative writing exercises where they collaborate with AI text generation tools to produce narratives. Students analyze the structure and coherence of AI-generated narratives, comparing them to human-written stories to identify strengths and weaknesses.
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.
Students compare their writing to that generated by AI, analyzing differences in style, coherence, and quality.
Students critically evaluate the claims made by AI-generated text, distinguishing between accurate information and exaggerated hype.
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 encourages students to engage in meaningful dialogues about artificial intelligence, fostering a deeper understanding of its implications and applications.