Self-paced online course
Think, Write, Edit + AI
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, and brings together a library of sequential prompts you can reuse on every future document. 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
This content works for all levels of AI experience
If you’re new to AI, you’ll learn safe and effective techniques. Advanced AI users learn an effective process for writing to build into reusable skills, workflows, and agents.
This is applied, not theoretical, learning
Get a real piece of work done using our workflow
This is a guided process. With each step, you get a little dose of content so you’re clear on how to do it and what success looks like. Then, you go to work. You select from our library of prompts, adapt them to your document, and work back-and-forth with AI to get much better results. 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
The best combination of human intelligence and AI
What you’ll learn
Write effectively
- 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
- See real examples—good and bad
- Write message style, not essay style
- Get feedback on your emails using our new AI tool
Use AI where it’s 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 the errors human eyes miss and create consistency across documents
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 asking AI to write creates workslop that no one wants to read
- Spot and fix common signs of AI-generated text
A sneak preview of our material
Get the best and avoid the worst of AI
Use AI in targeted ways, and only where it’s helpful, to get the best and fastest results.
Create consistency across your organization
This course makes effective writing stick
Use this guided process on a handful of documents
Individuals can go through our workflow many times. We kept the content lean, so you can focus on the steps. Each time you do, you reinforce the most effective process for writing until it becomes second nature.
Train your whole team
When everyone takes the training, your team shares one approach to writing and to using AI. Documents get more consistent, and reviews go faster because everyone knows what good looks like.
Contact us for group pricingCustomize this workflow to your documents and voice
We create custom versions of this course for our clients. This combines Wordsmith’s effective process with the specifics of your writing and process. All the prompts are designed to create content that reflects your organization’s AI policy, writing standards, document types, and voice.
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.
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!
Questions
Before you register
How much AI expertise do I need?
This course works whether you’re new to AI or use it daily. You’ll learn safe and effective ways to get started if you’re just beginning.
It also has value for advanced AI users because they learn an effective process for writing that they can build into skills and agents later.
What if I’m skeptical of AI or don’t have permission to use it?
You can still take this course. We cover techniques for using AI in safe ways that don’t require inputting your content. You can also completely ignore AI and still get value. You follow our steps, read our prompts, but do the work yourself rather than using AI.
How long do I have access to the course?
You have access for 60 days. If you need more time, email us and we’ll extend it.
What AI model should I use?
You can use whatever model your organization gives you access to. The material works with any model.
What about confidentiality?
You’ll need to know your company’s policy on what model you’re allowed to use and what content you can put into it.
That said, we also cover safe, useful ways of using AI without putting any of your own material into it.
Take Effective Writing Fundamentals if you haven’t already
To use AI effectively, you have to know what good writing looks like
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#1. Understand what goes wrong with writing
One problem influences every workplace writer and document. Because of it, documents take a lot of effort but still aren’t crisp and clear. Learn to write well and struggle less.
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#2. Think deeply about audience and purpose
How do you make decisions as you write? How do you know you’ve done a good job? This course sets out a standard you can rely on.
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#3. Structure documents for readability
Learn a universal structure you can apply to create clear, readable documents. Happily, it also makes them easier and faster to draft.
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#4. Redefine professional style
Answer the question most workplace writers have: what is the most professional style? Learn easy ways to capture an accessible, modern style.