This presentation will report on a pilot use of AI text generators as collaborators in WRIT6000 Professional Writing. In collaboration with AI, students were asked to write a creative 1500-word pitch to improve the quality of life in their hometown as a public awareness campaign, health initiative, grant application, etc. By comparing AI-generated text with their own and evaluating both using the rhetorical triangle and Aristotle’s artistic and inartistic proofs, students learnt first-hand what types of information text generators can and cannot be trusted to supply. Examples of successful collaborative proposals will be shared (with students’ permission).
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