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, ...
Throughout Writing with Artificial Intelligence, an undergraduate course, students will complete the following brief creative challenges: Key Benefits of Writing Without AI for Students For teachers, scholars and researchers in writing studies, writing is not merely a means of communication, but a powerful tool for thinking and learning. By engaging in the writing process, writers ...
Deliverables Student Learning Outcomes By completing this project, students will be able to: Introduction to the Assignment Throughout this course, you’ve been invited to see writing itself as a technology: one that has always transformed human consciousness, reorganized societies, and reconfigured power and authority. From cuneiform to the printing press to generative AI, each new ...
Outcomes Deliverables Note: The responses (responses to annotations, interviews, and White Papers) are due several days after those documents are submitted. Introduction to the Assignment This assignment builds directly on the first, where you examined how writing technologies have historically shaped human thought, consciousness, social structures, and power dynamics. Now, for this assignment, you will ...
Learning Outcomes By completing this project, you will: Deliverables Writing Prompt – Summary Create and record a presentation for Dr. Adams (the University’s AI Czar) and other university stakeholders who are working on Navigating AI Disruption: A Guide for the University Community. Purpose: Your presentation should introduce stakeholders to the influential scholarship of J.D. Bolter ...
Creative Challenges ENC 3266 · Research Methods · Professional & Technical Communication Five Creative Challenges.One Unending Conversation. Research refers to a systematic investigation carried out to discover new knowledge, test existing knowledge claims, solve practical problems, and develop new products, apps, and services. These five creative challenges teach you to evaluate how research works, why ...
The major assignments in this course are organized around the theme of Professional Writing: Workplace Communication, AI, and Career Readiness:
Exigency Throughout this course, you have studied the communication practices of workplace writers. You have compared a professional writing style to an academic style, studied the elements of style that facilitate clarity in communications, and explored the importance of information visualizations. You have reviewed research by NACE and ETS regarding the competencies necessary across professional ...
Exigency Humans are using generative AI and predictive AI to transform research, composing, collaborative, problem-solving processes — and more. These technological changes alter how we research, think, and interact with another. More broadly, they alter conventions — such as what constitutes a professional writing style or an academic writing style. Writing Prompt Research These Questions: ...
Exigency NACE’s Executive Committee wants to provide more nuanced reports on career readiness. They want to develop new reports that target particular professions, especially finance, marketing, accounting, communications and data analytics. Writing Prompt Continuing your role as a NACE research analyst, you are working in teams to produce a discipline-specific presentation. Your audience wants to ...
