Year 12 English Language students run a practice language investigation over three lessons, to learn corpus methods before they choose their own coursework topic; the assessed investigation itself is written without AI. The teacher supplies 20 opening paragraphs of film reviews from national newspapers, and each group of three designs a prompt, runs it in 20 fresh Gemini chats on school accounts to build a matching machine-written corpus, and stores both sets in a shared Google Sheet. Groups agree a coding frame, such as sentence length, first-person pronouns, evaluative adjectives, hedging and three-part lists, then code every text and chart the differences. Each group writes a 1,000-word report with a hypothesis, method, data, analysis and a conclusion on what the published reviews do that the machine-written ones do not, and presents its findings to the class. Prompts contain no personal data, and the teacher checks each group's corpus before coding begins.
Tools: Gemini for Education, Google Sheets Nine ideas for your own version in Generate
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