Unit 5: Final Exam Preparation/ The art of writing your own story

Why do you have to take a final exam?

Unit 5 slides

Final Exam Dates:

December 9 – December 11

About the Departmental Final Exam
The final exam will ask students to use two readings (the final exam readings) to support the thesis-driven essay that they write in response to a question. The departmental final is a 3-day module in Blackboard.

Here are the final exam directions from a previous semester.
  1. Read “Language of Being Human” by Poet Ali and/ or watch “Language of Being Human” Ted Talk.

2. Complete Conversation 5.

3. Read “What Happens When ChatGPT Starts to Feed On Its Own Writing?” by Sigal Samuel (docx)  
“What Happens When ChatGPT Starts to Feed On Its Own Writing?”
 by Sigal Samuel (pdf)

4. Class discussion and individual writing.

5. Good luck with the final exam!

Unit 5 packet if you are absent on the day I hand them out:

ENG-101-Unit-5-Packet

Supplemental materials:

If This Is Artificial Intelligence, Let’s Go With Real Stupidity

by Norman Solomon