On a rainy Monday morning, walking on his way to school, exhausted young Arthur trudged his way toward the dreary building of concrete blocks having spent all the night completing his essay for the science fair, determined to earn for his effort a prize from the strict judges. However, upon arriving at the exhibition and retrieving the paper from his backpack, his anxiety suddenly surged when he found a page was missing. Staring helplessly at the gap of the missing page, Arthur gasped as the grim truth struck him that without the page, he would forfeit the prize, and there was no time to return home to retrieve it before the exhibits would be judged.
Discuss and create these narratives:
- Officer loses a paper with the battle plan just as artillery barage begins
- Sales Executive loses his presentation just before a meeting
- Lawyer loses his notes before a court hearing
In the quiet hollow of the Big Green Woods, young Peter Rabbit longed for the forbidden, crisp vegetables in Mr. McGregor’s sunny garden (Person, Action, Place, Time). Driven by his sweet-toothed curiosity, he squeezed under the wooden gate and feasted upon the tender cabbages, fully aware that his father had met a tragic end in that very soil (Manner, Cause). Suddenly, the thumping boots of the angry gardener shattered the peace, turning his carefree feast into a frantic fight for survival (Reversal). As he cowered in a wet watering can, Peter realized with sudden horror that he was about to meet his father’s exact fate (Recognition), weeping in cold dark solitude as he longed for his mother’s warm burrow (Pathos).
– adapted from Beatrix Potter
In Medias Res
Bolting around the corner of the garden shed, peter’s eyes widening to see the open space of the plowed field, he quickly reasoned the watering can at the corner of the shed was his only hope for a place to hide. Squeezing his wet, trembling body inside the copper cylinder, his safe escape instantly inverted into a trap when the angry gardener stepped directly beside the rim, cutting off all light. As cold water soaked his blue jacket, Peter realized with sudden, horrific clarity how his longing for the sweet fresh vegetables of Mr. McGregor’s sunny garden had lured him straight into the same fatal snare that took his father. Shivering in the dark, silent tears filled his eyes as he mourned his reckless choices and pined for the safe warmth of his mother’s burrow.
Inverted Sequence
Shivering in the damp confines of the watering can, longing for his mother’s warm burrow, Peter was overtaken by the sudden horror that he was about to meet his father’s exact fate. The shadow of Mr. McGregor had just eclipsed the daydreams of a careless rabbit that had been enjoying crisp cabbages in a sunny garden only moments earlier. If only his peaceful, greedy morning in the quiet hollow of the Big Green Woods had not begun with disregard of his mother’s warning to stay away from Mr. McGregor’s garden.
Discuss generative AI for composition.
Explain dilemma of AI in academic institutions: fear of students bypassing cognitive development vs. producing alumni unprepared and lacking skills in AI.
Key concepts:
- Keep in charge.
- Don’t abdicate your creative or academic sovereignty.
- Learn to use AI effectively.
- offload tedious tasks
- formatting citations
- checking grammar
- AI is not search (keywords are not a prompt)
- Define AI’s role, then use the methods below:
- offload tedious tasks
- The AIM framework:
• Actor: Explicitly adopt the most relevant expert persona.
• Input: Ask for missing context instead of guessing.
• Mission: Optimize for usefulness over completeness.
Another framework:
| Element | Component | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| R | Role | Specifies the persona, tone, or area of expertise the AI should adopt. |
| I | Intent (or Input) | Outlines the primary goal or supplies raw material/data for processing. |
| C | Context | Provides essential background, constraints, audience details, or environment. |
| E | Expectations (or Examples) | Defines the output format, length, style, or offers a target example. |