In HPSC0044 Science and the Publishing Industry students develop a book proposal. First, they sketch an idea. Second, they deliver a project pitch. Third, they submit a book proposal. To help students think about the pitch as an assignment, I developed a typical rubric or “criteria for assessment”. As a bit of a test, I submitted these criteria into Google NotebookLM and asked for an audio summary.
The fiction of this audio summary is that it is a “deep dive” conversation between two individual commentators. The LLM calls this rubric an “disguised masterclass in high stakes persuasion”. Who knew?
The test is whether or not this audio summary helps students understand the project, not simply as a task but as a formative tool to help their skills grow.