Prompt Engineering
This category reflect the continued importance of iterating prompts and platforms to achieve writing goals with generative AI, across genres and writing contexts.
- Where Worlds Entwine: The Generative AI Poetry Exercise
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Aaron Meskin and Lindsey Harding
University of GeorgiaThis assignment asks students to use generative AI (viz., ChatGPT) to help write poems that they judge to be good and/or successful. Students were provided with easily available online resources about prompt engineering and the evaluation of poetry. They were encouraged to think creatively about their prompts and to revise them to generate multiple drafts of their poems. Then they were required to reflect and report on what they had done. Finally, students were invited to share their poems and accounts of their process in class. We have used the assignment in two educational contexts—a seminar for first-year students and a one-off lifelong learning course for adults over the age of 50.
- Bilingual Genre Redesign with AI
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Wei Xu
The University of ArizonaThis assignment asks students to use provided templates of prompts to feed ChatGPT for performing a recontextualization task named “Bilingual Genre Redesign,” meaning rewriting their existing text-based literature review into an open genre in two language versions. The ChatGPT assignment creates opportunities for students to critically engage with the language dynamics involved in the recontextualization process by evaluating whether and how the GPT-rewritten texts align with their understanding of shifted rhetorical context. Through seeing the limitations of AI in catching the fluidity needed in redesigned texts, students may develop a keener and critical awareness of AI use in their writing.