Killer ChatGPT Prompts

12ChatGPT Prompts for Students

IF YOU'RE A student, you'll likely want to take advantage of the many ways that ChatGPT offers to simplify, enliven, and turbocharge your learning. This chapter shows you how to craft prompts to enlist ChatGPT's help with language practice, understanding and executing homework, kick-starting your writing assignments, and polishing your prose—not to mention drafting essays and theses and creating practice tests targeting your weak areas.

If you're the parent of a student, you'll want to be up to speed with ChatGPT to make sure that your child is using it sensibly and effectively—and not relying on it too much.

Before We Begin, a Short Homily

If you're a student, you won't need me to tell you that ChatGPT and other generative AI tools are a point of contention between students and teachers at present. Understandably enough, students want to leverage this exciting new technology to get their schoolwork done faster, better, and more easily. Whereas teachers—also quite understandably—want students to put in at least the traditional amount of thought, effort, and research to ensure that they actually benefit from their courses.

As I mentioned in Chapter 11, assignments are a particular flashpoint. For the teacher, an assignment you submit should prove that you have studied the material; you understand it; and you can write about it, preferably in your own voice. For you, the assignment should be a challenge (if it's not a challenge, what's the point?) ...