The Creative Challenge For this project, you may work individually or collaboratively. You may develop a topic to research by considering the articles published in PTC journals that you and your peers reviewed for the second and third creative challenges. The research question may be based on your critiques or their peers’ critiques of studies ...
The Creative Challenge – Report Research Findings & Reflect on Research Methods This final creative challenge consists of three major deliverables that build upon your earlier research proposal. The research findings report and the methodological reflection are equally weighted in terms of grading, with the peer presentation contributing to your overall assessment. Research Findings Report ...
This is the fourth creative challenge that undergraduate students complete for Research Methods in Professional and Technical Communication, an undergraduate writing course. This assignment asks students to interview a student, a professor, and a professional writer regarding ways AI is changing communication practices.
Introduction & Organizational Summary As explored in the previous creative challenge on key terms and research methods in professional and technical communication (PTC), different scholarly and professional communities have distinct epistemological foundations, research practices, and genre conventions. They have conflicting ideas about what knowledge is, how knowledge claims should be constructed or found, and how ...
The Creative Challenge – Visualize Major Research Methods Deliverable #1 – Individually-Authored Visualization Each group member should take a shot at visualization, perhaps even using different tools. Or, it’s fine at this stage to craft a visualization by hand so long as it’s readable. Deliverable #2 – Collaboratively-Authored Visualization Working collaboratively in groups of three, ...
The Creative Challenge For this project, you will collaborate with the same teams from the second challenge to critique research methods from a disciplinary and ethical perspective. Building on your previous analysis, you will focus on the same nine studies from the first challenge, where you analyzed research questions, literature reviews, and citations from a ...
The course is structured around five foundational methodologies: Through these creative challenges, students will: This progressive approach allows students to build their skills incrementally, moving from critical consumers of research to active producers of knowledge in the field. By the end of the course, students will be well-prepared to engage with and contribute to the ...
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 ...
