Context for the Assignment Past assignments have challenged you to explore critical literacy AI competencies — i.e., the literacies that the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI identifies as a foundational literacy students must master to navigate the knowledge economy. At the start of the semester, you reviewed research by OpenAI that demonstrates ...
Context for the Assignment In the first creative challenge for this course — Key Benefits of Writing Without AI for Students — you explored the benefits of writing without AI. Then, for the second challenge you created an infographic on prompt engineering. You followed that challenge by learning about bots and designing a custom chatbot. Then, for creative challenge ...
Research Question – What is the Future of Human Agency Researchers are questioning whether generative AI (GAI) may limit writer’s control over their composing and thought processes, and whether, more broadly, these tools will limit human agency, thereby changing what it means to be human. According to a Pew Research Center study — “The Future ...
Introduction to the Conundrum In this creative challenge, you will research the controversy over whether AI companies violate copyright by training LLMs (large language models) on copyrighted materials. More specifically, they examine the high-stakes lawsuit by The New York Times against OpenAI/Microsoft over alleged copyright infringement in developing their breakthrough AI system. You will review ...
Introduction to the Creative Challenge In the first creative challenge — Key Benefits of Writing Without AI for Students — you reflected on what you and other writers gain by writing without AI. For that assignment you reviewed Postman’s “Five things we need to know about technological change” and the Civics of Technology’s “Technoskeptical Framework.” ...
Introduction to the Creative Challenge Your first creative challenge asked you to reflect on what you and other writers gain by writing without AI. For the second challenge, you developed your critical AI literacy skills by researching prompt engineering in relation to research and scholarship in writing studies, especially (1) writing processes; (2) rhetorical processes; ...
The Creative Challenge — Develop Prompts based on Research & Scholarship In order to prepare you for this second creative challenge, two key concepts are defined below: Introduction to Prompt Engineering Prompt engineering has emerged as a basic literacy competency in the age of generative AI, referring to strategies writers employ to elicit desired information ...
The Exigency — What is the Value of Writing to Students Now That AI Systems Can Write at or above Their Level? Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools can now write as well as most high school students. Some argue, these tools have already reached the point of writing better than undergraduate students. Their scores on ...
Throughout Writing with Artificial Intelligence, an undergraduate course, students will complete the following brief creative challenges: Key Benefits of Writing Without AI for Students For teachers, scholars and researchers in writing studies, writing is not merely a means of communication, but a powerful tool for thinking and learning. By engaging in the writing process, writers ...
The Heuristic for The Infographic Project is an exercise in Professional Writing, an undergraduate writing course. An heuristic is an invention exercise, a thought exercise. The heuristic below is a tool you can use to develop your infographic for The Infographic Project. The questions below to help you tell your story. This heuristic is helpful ...
