AI as Not-a-Grammar-Checker
Students use AI to simulate reader feedback, apply writing theories, and improve student writing beyond basic grammar checks.
Style & Tone
AI as Not-a-Thesaurus
Students use AI as a tool for generating diverse writing styles, analogies, and explanations.
Create College Essay Topic Ideas Using an AI Chatbot
This activity guides students through brainstorming and developing college essay ideas, helping them enhance their writing skills, critical thinking, and creativity.
Create Creative Writing Assignments with an AI Chatbot
The assignment leverages AI tools to inspire and guide teachers as they create unique creative writing assignments.
Generative AI Op-Ed Assignment
Students prompt AI to write a 750-word op-ed, conduct a thorough fact-check and critique, and then rewrite the op-ed with accurate sources and improved arguments.
Writing Humor
Students use ChatGPT to generate an essay based on their original premise, including a specified word count, humor elements, and key details.
Sentence Doctor
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.
Generative AI: The Voice of the Other
Students compare their own writing with AI-generated texts to understand their unique writing voice, identify differences in vocabulary, tone, and style, and apply this knowledge to enhance their writing authenticity.
Introductory Activity for Generative AI
Students engage in crafting and refining prompts to elicit specific responses from LLMs, enhancing their understanding of precise and effective communication.
Rhetorical Prompt Engineering
Students develop their rhetorical analysis skills by examining and creating prompts, learning how to craft questions that elicit thoughtful and effective responses. Their revision work focuses on documents related to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.
Writing for Career Readiness: Engaging ChatGPT to Develop Resume Bullet Points
Students learn how to tailor their resume bullet points to specific job descriptions and then participate in a peer review process with class members.
Variation in the Writing Outputs of First-year Writing Students and Generative AI
Students compare their writing to that generated by AI, analyzing differences in style, coherence, and quality.
Using Generative AI in the Music History Classroom
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.
Study: Question Creation
This assignment shows students how to use ChatGPT to generate a variety of quiz questions on any topic, even when no existing materials are available. Students can customize the difficulty and style of the questions, making self-quizzing more effective and tailored to their needs.
Generate: Social Media Posts
This assignment teaches students to generate social media posts tailored to specific audiences. By understanding the tone and style of various platforms, students can create content that effectively communicates key concepts to targeted demographics.
Writing: Holistic Editing
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.
Writing: Analyze Readability and Tone
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.
Writing: Burstiness
ChatGPT helps students improve their writing by increasing the variability of word choice and sentence structure, making their prose more engaging and sophisticated.
Analyze: Qualitative Analysis
Students utilize ChatGPT to identify repetitions, themes, and categories in texts, leveraging its ability to recognize synonyms and related concepts, even with varied diction.
Analyze: Convert to Conversational Language
Students use ChatGPT to convert complex academic texts into conversational language, making challenging concepts more accessible and understandable. By practicing with ChatGPT, students enhance their ability to explain research and projects to non-experts.
Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric
This assignment encourages students to revise AI-generated text to make it more rhetorical, focusing on purpose, audience, and persuasion, thus enhancing their understanding and application of rhetorical principles.
Analyze: Poetry and Figurative Language
Students use ChatGPT to engage actively with poetry, facilitating a deeper understanding of figurative language and interpretation.
Prompt Engineering: Specified Style
The assignment encourages students to engage creatively by asking ChatGPT to deliver explanations or summaries in the style of famous authors or artists, making learning more enjoyable and memorable.
Prompt Engineering: Tone
The assignment allows students to explore and understand different tones by having them generate responses in various styles, such as playful, sarcastic, or authoritative, helping them recognize how tone impacts communication.