A step-by-step process to create stronger documents

This online, self-paced course walks you through a series of practical steps to combine your human intelligence and expertise with the best of AI. It is structured around the workflow we’ve developed over 50 years to help writers get their expertise on paper effectively.

We will cover how to:

  • get past the stages where writers normally struggle

  • resolve common problems in workplace writing

  • get AI to perform at its best

  • avoid the problems that come from over-relying on AI

The course brings together a library of sequential prompts you can reuse on every future document.

Think, Write, Edit + AI

Build a real document

This course is built to help you complete a piece of work by using the steps in our workflow.

By the end of the course, you will have:

  • written a really strong document

  • learned to write faster

  • developed skills for deeper thinking and analysis

  • learned targeted approaches for using AI

Effective workplace writing

  • Try a faster, more effective drafting process (with or without AI)

  • Know what good writing looks like and how to create it

  • Avoid common problems in work writing

  • Resolve writer’s block and writing and rewriting

Where AI is excellent

  • Extract your subject-matter expertise through interview mode

  • Role play your readers to test content from multiple angles

  • Find gaps in your thinking and analysis

  • Research and analyze more quickly

  • Write only in specific cases

  • Repurpose existing content almost instantly

  • Find errors and finalize content

How to avoid the worst of AI

  • Understand the limits of AI tools

  • Cultivate a targeted AI approach that is not “all or nothing”

  • Prevent offloading your thinking onto AI by working too quickly

  • Prompt intelligently, and in steps, to get the best results

  • Learn when getting AI to write creates workslop and an AI style readers dislike

  • Spot and fix common signs of AI-generated text

What you’ll learn

Course details

  • 1 hour of video content and many prompts and examples

  • The rest of the time is spent building your own document

  • $275 per person

  • Optional feedback on your emails using our new AI tool

Maybe it’s because I’m old school, but I think it is important that my staff still learn core skills, then build in AI.

You’re speaking my language with this course!


The best guidance on how to use AI I’ve encountered to date.

I would highly recommend this to anyone who is writing anything at work!


I’ve taken Wordsmith’s live courses, and this is the perfect complement to them.

I was able to complete a document I was pleased with relatively quickly. I also learned I wasn’t making my prompts sophisticated enough to get good results.