Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students explore the abilities and limitations of AI chatbots like ChatGPT through creating and recording a podcast interview. Students will analyze the role of AI in information-providing contexts and compare it with human expertise.
This activity explores AI’s impact on the environment, asking students to write analytical essays on the environmental costs and benefits of AI technologies.
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.
The assignment leverages AI tools to inspire and guide teachers as they create unique creative writing assignments.
Students submit their writing to an AI tool to receive feedback on various aspects, such as clarity, coherence, and grammar.
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 compare their writing to that generated by AI, analyzing differences in style, coherence, and quality.
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.
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.
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.