AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT: A Guide for Instructors

AI tools can assist with the writing process by helping to develop and organize ideas or edit and revise drafts.

The following are suggested prompts that might help with the writing process from chapter five, "AI-Assisted Faculty" in the book:

Bowen, J.A. & Watson, C.E. (2024). Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Provide five different ways of organizing these ideas into a paper.
• Write an abstract for this paper.
• Propose an alternative structure for this article.
• Summarize the main arguments in this paper.
• Write and introductory paragraph that summarized the previous research on my topic and include citations.
• What other ways could I expand the idea in paragraph X?
• What research could I add to bolster this argument?
• Transform my research summary into a proposal for support from foundation Y using their goals and funding criteria.
• Draft a research update for my grant Z using the foundation format form.
• Who are the other major figures in this field who might be potential reviewers of this article? What work of theirs should I cite?
• Reformat all citations (or my bibliography) into this format for journal Y.
• What recent articles from journal Z are relevant to this idea (and should be cited)?

The act of writing prompts is writing in and of itself. Crafting an effective prompt is an iterative process and students should be encouraged to craft and revise prompts as part of a scaffolded assignment. 

Examples from chapter 11, Writing with AI, from the book Bowen, J.A. & Watson, C.E. (2024). Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Write a general prompt that can direct AI to
  • produce more inclusive responses
  • adopt a less Western perspective
  • focus on what could go wrong
  • connect with a specific audience
  • clarify how a student can find her own voice (Bowen & Watson, p.206)