Write notes in the margins on “A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?," a ChatGPT critique of it, and a human-written critique

  • Due No Due Date
  • Points 20
  • Submitting a student annotation or a file upload
Warning: For improved accessibility with Annotated Assignments, please use File Upload or Text Entry to leave comments.

Note to instructors: this assignment is structured to allow for student annotations of a PDF in Canvas, but I highly recommend using Hypothesis Links to an external site. or Perusall Links to an external site. 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

  1. “A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?" Links to an external site. by John Eligon, The New York Times, June 26, 2020
  2. A user prompts ChatGPT to write a basic critical assessment of "A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?" Links to an external site.
  3. 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’?" Links to an external site.(See the margin notes Links to an external site. to connect each user request to an explanation in the textbook How Arguments Work Links to an external site..) Links to an external site.
  4. A sample human-written critical assessment of "A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?" Links to an external site. 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’?" Links to an external site.

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 Links to an external site..

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