Cyborgs and Centaurs: Academic Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

by Liza Long

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Cyborgs and Centaurs provides a guided approach to the academic research and writing process for first-year composition students. The book incorporates generative artificial intelligence prompts and exercises to strengthen learning, explore ethical concerns, and develop a personal writing process.

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Publisher
College of Western Idaho
Subjects
Humanities
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About this book
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Unit One- Exploratory Research
  8. 1.1: What's Wrong with This Picture?
  9. 1.2: Is the College Essay Dead?
  10. 1.3: What Do You Want to Know?
  11. 1.4: Surviving the Textpocalypse
  12. 1.5: How Can I Develop a Research Question?
  13. 1.6: Where Did Generative AI Come From? An Exercise in Co-Writing
  14. 1.7: How Do Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT Work?
  15. 1.8: How Do I Get Started with AI Platforms?
  16. 1.9: How Do I Prompt AI Chatbots?
  17. 1.10: What Ethical Concerns Exist for Generative AI Tools?
  18. 1.11: How Do I Acknowledge and Cite Generative AI in Academic Work?
  19. 1.12: What If I Don't Use Generative AI?
  20. 1.13: What Types of Sources Should I Use for Academic Research?
  21. 1.14: How Can I Use Sources in My Research?
  22. 1.15: What Is Precision Searching?
  23. 1.16: How Do I Synthesize Sources for Exploratory Research?
  24. 1.17: How do I Write an Introductory Paragraph for a Research Paper?
  25. 1.18: How Do I Give and Receive Peer Feedback?
  26. 1.19: How Do I Revise and Edit My Own Work?
  27. 1.20: Verification Checklist for AI-Assisted Research
  28. 2: Unit Two- Persuasive Argument
  29. 2.1: What Is an Academic Argument?
  30. 2.2: What Is Aristotelian Argument?
  31. 2.3: What is Toulmin Argument?
  32. 2.4: What Is Rogerian Argument?
  33. 2.5: What Type of Argument Should I Use?
  34. 2.6: How Do I Write a Proposal Argument?
  35. 2.7: How Do I Choose the Right Audience for My Argument?
  36. 2.8: The Ethics and Importance of Arguing Across Moral Tribes
  37. 2.9: How Do I Avoid Logical Fallacies?
  38. 2.10: How Do I Organize My Persuasive Argument Essay?
  39. 2.11: How Do I Use Metadiscourse to Show I'm Human?
  40. 2.12: How Can I Use AI to Edit and Revise my Persuasive Argument?
  41. 3: Unit Three- Multimodal Communication in My Field
  42. 3.1: How Will AI Be Used in My Career?
  43. 3.2: What Is a Multimodal Assignment?
  44. 3.3: What Tools Can I Use for Multimodal Assignments?
  45. 3.4: Student Examples of Multi-Modal Assignments
  46. 4: Writing and Artificial Intelligence
  47. 4.1: What Is Digital Literacy?
  48. 4.2: Writing with Artificial Intelligence
  49. 5: Professional Writing and LLMs
  50. 5.1: SEO Technical Guide- Terms You Need to Know
  51. 5.2: SEO Prompting with Large Language Models
  52. 5.3: SEO and Content Creation in the Age of AI-Assisted Search
  53. Back Matter
  54. Index
  55. Glossary
  56. Detailed Licensing