creativity

Assistive Yet Authorial: Critical Use of GenAI in Personal Narrative Prewriting

Activities, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, drafting and revising, genAI, identity, narrative and storytelling, prewriting and invention, primary source research, Process, research, writing technologies /

Daehyun Won Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Due to the accelerating adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) across higher education, writing instructors face everyday challenges in developing academic writing skills while integrating GenAI to enhance digital literacy, critical AI literacy, and prompt engineering. Not to undermine students’ authorial agency, authentic voice, and ownership in […]

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Embodying Process: A Making-Based Writing Challenge

Activities, demystifying writing assignments, metacognition, Process, reflection, Threshold concepts, visual/multimodal rhetorics, writing myths and anxiety /

Franziska Tsufim Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Writing classes routinely ask students to engage in a lengthy process of drafting and revising their work. As instructors, we emphasize to students the need to “fail” (Carr), call “shitty first drafts” messy yet generative (Lamott) and position these ideas as “writing thresholds” (Adler-Kassner & Wardle). At

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Clause Patterns, Clause Meanings

Activities, Critical Language Awareness, drafting and revising, grammar and mechanics, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, reflection /

Mark Shea Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description In my writing classroom, I want students to approach revising and polishing with the idea that there is benefit to trying different phrasings and sentence structures. Even if their current writing works, the only way to know if there’s a better version is to try new versions

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Large Language Models and Chain Stories: An Exploration of Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Activities, collaboration and group work, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, narrative and storytelling, writing technologies /

Chris Mayer Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This lesson develops students’ awareness of the synergistic and disruptive potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in storytelling. Designed for a first-year writing class, the lesson explores the interplay between creativity and AI by examining LLMs’ storytelling capabilities. Students will collaboratively create a chain story, then use

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Finding Your Way In: Invention as Inquiry Based Learning in First Year Writing

prewriting and invention, Volume 1 /

Steven Lessner & Collin Craig Volume 1 Chapter Description Conventional literacy pedagogy in secondary education uses the five-paragraph essay to train students to be succinct writers capable of performing in pressured situations, such as state mandated tests. We aim to show students of first-year writing practical steps in transitioning into college writing by providing strategies

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Taking Flight: Connecting Inner and Outer Realities during Invention

prewriting and invention, Volume 1, writing myths and anxiety /

Susan E. Antlitz Volume 1 Chapter Description One of the toughest challenges students face is figuring out what to write about. Connecting personal identity and purpose to more public contexts and subjects can play a significant role in helping students to write confidently. “Taking Flight” acknowledges the anxiety writers can feel when faced with the

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Writing “Eyeball To Eyeball”: Building A Successful Collaboration

collaboration and group work, Volume 2 /

Rebecca Ingalls Volume 2 Chapter Description Collaborating on a written project can be one of the most beneficial, and challenging, strategies to include in a writing class. While all students have likely worked in groups before, many do not yet know how to mindfully prepare, manage, and negotiate the conflicts that may arise in group

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