Note to instructors: this assignment is structured to allow for student annotations of a PDF in Canvas, but I highly recommend using Hypothesis or Perusall instead to make the annotation social and collaborative. You can use those tools either independently or integrated with your LMS. Students have told me they love being able to read each others' annotations and reply to classmates' comments, and this makes for richer class discussion.
Readings
- “A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?" by John Eligon, The New York Times, June 26, 2020
- A user prompts ChatGPT to write a basic critical assessment of "A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?"
- OR an extended example of more that ChatGPT can do when prompted: A user prompts ChatGPT for specific kinds of critical assessment of "A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?" (See the margin notes to connect each user request to an explanation in the textbook How Arguments Work.)
- A sample human-written critical assessment of "A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?" or the screen-reader accessible version of the human-written critical assessment of "A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?"
Instructions
Write at least three comments tied to specific lines in the text for full credit.
Comments might include
- questions
- critiques
- trying to summarize a point in your own words to see if you've understood and to help yourself integrate the idea
- personal reactions and opinions
- examples of what the text is talking about that come from your own experience or knowledge
- connections to other readings or experience or other knowledge you have
- requests for clarification/expressions of confusion
- replies to classmates' questions or comments
Assignment by Anna Mills, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.