Projects

Illustration of a person pushing a large boulder labeled “Knowledge,” “The Scholarly Conversation of Humankind,” and “Agency” up a steep hill while a translucent AI figure assists from above.

Workplace Communication, AI, and Career Readiness – Professional Development Plan

Deliverables Student Learning Outcomes Introduction to the Module The white-collar job market you are about to enter is undergoing the fastest transformation in modern history. Generative AI tools—capable of drafting reports, analyzing data, creating marketing content, and performing routine research at speeds and costs no human can match—are already automating or fundamentally reshaping millions of ...

A young professional in a powdered wig and 18th-century costume stands confidently at a conference table, presenting to colleagues in modern business attire. The caption on the image reads: "What is wrong with this picture?"

The Language of Work: Style, Rhetoric, and Visual Design in Professional Communication

Deliverables Student Learning Outcomes By the end of this project, you will be able to: Introduction to the Module Professional writing is transactional: you write because someone needs to act, decide, or solve a problem. Readers scan first and only slow down when you earn their attention. To meet these expectations, you will study how ...

Professional Writing – Summary of Course Projects – ENC 2251 (Spring 2026)

Course Projects Students complete two major projects. The first project has eleven deliverables while the second has five deliverables:

Projects for Research Methods (ENC 3266)

This section collates projects for Research Methods, an undergraduate course.

Rhetorical Analysis Exercise #1

Before You Begin Read the Introduction to the Course (above).Read the following short articles: These readings will help you apply rhetorical concepts—audience, purpose, ethos, genre, and context—to your analysis of this scholarly journal. Purpose This assignment helps you understand how scholarly communities in Professional and Technical Communication (PTC) define what counts as credible knowledge. By ...

References (Writing with AI)

Joseph M. Moxley

Anderson, J., & Rainie, L. (2022). The future of human agency. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. https://eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net/eu3/sites/964/2023/02/Future-of-Human-Agency-ElonU-Pew-2-24-2023.pdf Aschenbrenner, L. (2024, June). Situational awareness – The decade ahead. Situational Awareness AI. https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too ...

It may seem easy to copy and paste AI-generated content, but the easy road is rarely the most prudent. Today’s companies aren’t paying for generic, machine-made text—they’re investing in human judgment, originality, and critical thinking. Don’t mistake AI for a substitute for your own expertise; use it to amplify your ideas, not replace them

Course AI Policy

Don’t assume any employer will feed you and pay you a salary just for being a human front-end typing things into ChatGPT! Jochen L. Leidner Course Policy on Generative AI Tools Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are changing how writers compose, think, and learn. Used passively, these tools can distance you ...

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

Final Project

Deliverables Writing Prompt As a member of a twelve-student undergraduate research team, your task is to contribute to Navigating AI Disruption: A Guide for the University Community. This guide is designed to help students, faculty, administrators, and employers understand and prepare for the disruptive effects of generative AI and superintelligence. Dr. Adams is most interested ...

Metacognitive Report – AI Writing Ethics: Balancing Agency, Voice & Disclosure

Why Write a a Metacognitive Report? Generative AI can simplify plagiarism or, used as a tool, it can also serve as a thought partner. It can shortcut your labor, spitting out pages that look like your work but hollow out your learning. Or it can serve as a thought partner, helping you think harder, test ...

A shocked student seems on his computer screen where an AI tool has told them it thinks their writing is simplistic.

Autoethnographic Study

Deliverables This creative challenge has multiple deliverables: Check Canvas for assignment due dates. Introduction to the Project In our first project, you explored writing’s enduring value by tracing its evolution from orality to digital media. Then you took a stance on how universities should respond to GenAI in student writing—should we prohibit it, permit it, ...