Projects

Guidelines for Evaluating and Revising Your Methodological Critique with GenAI Feedback

Purpose This exercise helps you evaluate and plan revisions for your Methodological Critique by using GenAI tools as diagnostic partners. You will prompt multiple GenAI systems with the official grading rubric, compare their assessments, and decide which feedback to act on. The goal is not to rewrite your critique now but to produce an informed, ...

Guidelines for Summary and Synthesis of Readings — Methodological Critique

Purpose This exercise prepares you for the Methodological Critique (Research Note) by helping you synthesize key readings on how scholars evaluate the quality, credibility, and authority of research. You will explore how methodological critique functions as part of the ongoing conversation of humankind (Bruffee, 1984), revealing how disagreements among scholars reflect differences in epistemological assumptions ...

A person pushes a large boulder labeled “Human Agency” up a hill while a glowing, digital figure helps from behind.

Career Competencies in the AI Frontier

Deliverables Introduction to the Module This module asks you to investigate how AI is reshaping career readiness in a field that interests you. The research question driving your work: In a career field that interests you, which tasks are most exposed to AI automation—and which human competencies will matter more as a result? Some business ...

A flat design illustration of human evolution, ending with a robot shaking hands with a person before sitting at a computer to write, symbolizing generative AI taking over the act of composition.

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

Course Modules The Language of Work: Style, Rhetoric, and Visual Design in Professional Communication In this module you move from analysis to creation, completing an assignment sequence that asks you to write, design, and present for real workplace audiences. You begin with an instruction manual that teaches coworkers core design principles, then record a presentation ...

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 ...

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References (Writing with AI)

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 ...