Open Educational Resources and Chatbots

Open Educational Resources

• “Argumentation and Synthesis”

• “Rhetorical Analysis” (for WRIT 2325: Analyzing Rhetoric)

• “Undergraduate Legal Writing: an Open Resource” (for WRIT 3326: Legal Writing)

• Bad Ideas About Writing(co-edited with Cheryl E. Ball)

Chatbots

• UNSTUCK-if-ier (help with brainstorming and refining ideas [ChatGPT])

• Assumptions Inspector (help with understanding what an argument takes for granted [all arguments assume something] [ChatGPT])

  • Knowledge base is original content by Anna Mills, except for the descriptions of the red herring, slippery slope, and post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies, which Anna Mills adapted from the "Informal Logical Fallacies" chapter of Fundamental Methods of Logic by Matthew Knachel, UWM Digital Commons, licensed CC BY.

• Stasis Coach (help with understanding what is at issue and how it is argued [ChatGPT])

• Counterargument Coach (help with counterarguments [ChatGPT])

• Research Question and “Bad Idea” Coach (help with research questions for Proj. 1 and 3 in WRIT 2302[ChatGPT])

• Scholarly Search Strategy Coach (help with formulating search terms [ChatGPT])

• Evaluating Research and Reports about Research (help with reading and evaluating research and media reports about research [Boodle Box])

• Thesis Coach (Chat GPT)