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Analyzing AI-to-AI Debate as Rhetorical Observation

Activities, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, genre and discourse community, observation, reflection, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, writing technologies /

Daewoo Jin Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity aims at developing students’ ability to distinguish statistical text generation from human meaning-making by observing how two AI systems exchange directed arguments in response to short, human-written prose. Students analyze rhetorical clarity, disruption, and absence in AI-to-AI debate transcripts, within one class meeting, and in […]

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Reading Against the Machine

Activities, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, metacognition, reading, reading strategies /

Scott DeLoach Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description In this activity, students practice using generative AI tools as reading partners while strengthening their metacognitive awareness through the Reading Apprenticeship framework. Reading Apprenticeship is a framework that supports students in developing expert reading habits by making thinking processes visible and shared. It integrates four key dimensions

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Can ChatGPT Make the Right Moves? A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Human-Authored and AI-Generated Texts

Assignments, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, Process, rhetorical situation, writing technologies /

Michelle Cook, Gaby Meindl, and Angela Laflen Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Helping students develop rhetorical knowledge acts as a bridge between understanding GenAI tools on a functional level and being a critical reader of texts generated by AI. Because we are preparing students to enter academic and professional spaces that have been, and

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Convincing the Machine: Using Rhetoric to Get the Most Out of AI Writing Assistants in Proposal Writing

Assignments, digital literacy, genAI, identity, information literacy, professional writing, rhetorical situation, writing technologies /

Ronald B. Cole, Lauren N. Maher, and Rich Rice Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment teaches students to treat generative AI as a rhetorical collaborator that must be convinced through recursive prompting, strategic data curation, and continuous adjustment. Students assume the role of grant writers advocating for a project, community, or initiative of

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Ethical Use of Generative AI for Conducting Research

Activities, genAI, metacognition, Process, reflection, research /

Aimee Jones Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity demonstrates how to ethically use two Generative AI tools in the research stage of the writing process. In the last year, AI writing tools, most notably Chat GPT, have generated academic-integrity related concerns for university administrators and instructors. In a study conducted from the Spring

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Experimenting with Style: Cyborg Voices

Activities, genAI, grammar and mechanics, Process, rhetorical situation, Style /

Benjamin Hojem and Rhiannon Scharnhorst Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description From Aristotle’s correctness to Quintilian’s purity to Campbell’s nationality, rhetorical instruction in the formal qualities of writing has long emphasized stylistic “virtues” that serve to exclude language variants and their speakers. With this history in mind, how should we understand the capabilities and affordances

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AI and Language: Facilitating Emergent Participation in New Discourse Communities

Assignments, cultural awareness, digital literacy, genAI, genre and discourse community, identity, information literacy, language bias /

Kelsey Hawkins Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Since the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, instructors and scholars have grappled with the ways that AI technologies are transforming writing practices. In a world that increasingly relies on Generative AI (GenAI) technologies like text generators to produce content for public and professional contexts,

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Collaborative Building of a Course AI Policy

Activities, collaboration and group work, genAI /

Benjamin Goodwin Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity, designed for the first day or week of a first-year composition course, aims to address several key beginning-of-the-term concerns: breaking the ice and building community, giving students a sense of agency and ownership of the learning space, and addressing the complex issues and impacts of

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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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Gen AI: Large Language Models and Linguistic Whitewashing

Activities, genAI, language bias, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, writing technologies /

Chris Mayer Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This multi-step lesson engages students in the critical analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and its impact on linguistic diversity. Through assigned readings, writing tasks, and in-class activities, students will explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can reinforce linguistic hierarchies and biases. Even older LLMs, like

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