AI-Assisted Writing & Editing

with the Georgetown University Alumni Association

Two-week course starting June 2, 2025

In this short course, participants learn a proven framework for writing and editing their work—with help from generative AI. We’ll follow the outline of our most-requested signature workshop, with guidance at each step on how to work effectively with gen AI as a planning, drafting, and revising partner.

This course is appropriate for attendees who use gen AI but want a writing-specific focus, and for those who will be experimenting with AI tools for the first time during the course. Participants will practice using gen AI for audience awareness, tone of voice, prompt engineering, and more. We will focus our sentence-level edits on stylistic hallmarks of AI-generated copy.

Inside the Course

We’ll email you recorded lessons bi-weekly. Watch them on your own schedule. Then, join us for optional live office hours to ask questions and go over your own work with an instructor. 

Week 1:

Monday, June 2

Ground rules for writing with gen AI • Ethics, accuracy, and privacy.

The “ART” of audience awareness • Plan for your document’s Audience, Result, and Tone with gen AI.

Wednesday, June 4

Voice and tone analysis • Use gen AI to analyze the style of a person or brand.

Prompt engineering • Useful prompts are a paragraph, not a couple of words; learn two approaches to prompting for better AI output.

Thursday/Friday, June 5/6

Office Hours

Week 2:

Monday, June 9

Information design • Only in our signature workshops: format your writing to keep readers engaged.

Signs of AI-generated copy • Learn the linguistic habits that plague both wordy humans and AI output; revise for specific signs of AI-generated copy.

Wednesday, June 11

Testing, editing, and proofreading • The best tools for self-editing, and when and how to use them as an adjunct to gen AI’s editing capabilities.

Thursday/Friday, June 12/13

Office Hours

“Grace’s workshop at our nonprofit office was thoughtful, instructive, and will make an immediate positive impact on our writing. Though my colleagues and I come from different educational backgrounds and have a wide range of writing experience, each of us took away helpful pieces of advice that will be easy to implement.”


—Meredith Wade, Management Consultant, The Hope for Henry Foundation

After the course, you will be able to:

  • Apply our ART (Audience, Result, Tone) tool with or without AI assistance

  • Create effective prompts for different writing tasks

  • Use generative AI to analyze and reproduce specific voices and styles

  • Improve usability and formatting when editing drafts

  • Understand where human oversight remains essential in the editorial process

  • Consider privacy and accuracy implications

  • Edit for signs of AI-generated copy

  • Use tools for style, grammar, and proofreading

Participants will keep:

  • 30-day access to the course lesson videos

  • The ART tool for Audience Awareness

  • Bold Type’s editing checklist

  • Bold Type’s guide to “10 Types of Clutter to Cut From Your Sentences”

  • The training deck packed with before-and-after examples

Pricing:

  • $249 early bird price until May 16, 2025. Use code EARLYBIRD

  • $299 starting May 17, 2025

“Bold Type facilitated their Writing and Editing training for 30 of our staff members. Both Casey and Grace were incredibly easy to work with, and they intentionally catered the workshop to our needs. Several months later and our staff is still actively using the strategies learned in their daily communication to our partners and program participants.”

- Cameron Ford, Senior Program Officer, American Councils for International Education