Nuts and Bolts
Name at least two of the chapters we read in the textbook.
Concision, Clarity, Flow, Punctuation, Gracefulness, or Using sources
What is the name of the George Orwell essay we read?
Shooting an Elephant
AI stands for ___.
Artificial Intelligence
He is known for writing the books 1984 and Animal Farm.
George Orwell
What is the name for the type of writing style we should try and avoid.
The Pompous Style
What is the physical object that Hanif Abdurraqib used in his essay about letting go?
Sneakers
Name one of the LLMs we talked about in class.
Chat GPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta
She spent 25 years studying animal behavior as a horse/dog trainer.
Who is the book dedicated to?
"For George Orwell, who matters more than ever"
What is the name of the first reading we did this semester?
Why I Write by Joan Didion
What is the large language model?
It is a sophisticated mathematical function that predicts what word comes next in any piece of text.
He is an American author and memoirist who struggled with homelessness in which he wrote about.
Lars Eighner
In Chapter 2 he names three ways to add clarity to your writing name at least two.
Choose Verbs over Nominalization, Choose Active Verbs of Linking Verbs, or Choose Active Voice over Passive Voice
What are the four core elements of Rhetoric?
According to the video we watched in the library how much water does AI use?
11 Lakhs or 1.1 million liters
He is known as an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic and his book on a Tribe Called Quest was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award.
Hanif Abdurraqib
What is the name of the next chapter we are reading (ch. 7)?
Paragraphs
During the AI unit we compared two articles. What are the names of the two articles?
AI should have the same ethical protections as animals and What's wrong with animal rights
How long would it take for a standard human to read the amount of text that was used to train the GPT-3.
Her career started after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue.
Joan Didion