The Unit 5 Assignment: Investigating Trends in Your Career Field, in PACE 111, requires you to use AI to find trends in your career or planned career.
Read all the assignment instructions in class, including the assignment template.
The instructions walk you through the process of using AI, then doing a normal internet search (for example, using Google) to find info on trends.
Please note: Unless your PACE professor specifically tells you otherwise, you do NOT have to search in the UMGC library databases for the Trends assignment.
The assignment instructions guide you through two important principles of using AI:
- 1. Give AI a good prompt based on your research topic.
- This example in the assignment template is good!
- "What are the top three trends in the movie production industry?"
- Of course, give AI a prompt based on your career field. For another example:
- "What are three trends in project management?"
- "What are three trends in accounting?"
- For the PACE assignment, you may not need this, but here is more info on prompting AI.
- 3. Make sure the information AI gives you is factual.
- Practically every time you use AI for a classroom assignment, you need to check the accuracy of the info AI gives you. AI tends to make up "facts" out of thin air, so verify, verify, verify!
- You can double-check the AI information by Googling it: search Google for alternative, non-AI info on trends, and use that to judge whether AI gave you accurate, trustworthy info
If you've never used AI or are not sure what version to use, please ask your PACE 111 professor for help, as the classroom instructions indicate.
Unlike with library database searches, UMGC librarians cannot give extensive, detailed help on using AI.
We do have a guide about AI in general, which includes lots of guides and tips.
The Trends assignment also asks you to cite your research. Here are guidelines for: