AI-Assisted Writing & Editing

with the Georgetown University Alumni Association

Self-paced course starting December 1st

In this two-week course, participants learn a proven framework for writing and editing workplace documents—with or without help from generative AI. We’ll follow the outline of our most-requested signature Writing & Editing workshop, with guidance at each step on how to work with gen AI as a planning, drafting, and revising partner.

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 work with an instructor. 

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FAQs

Which gen AI app(s) will we use?
This course takes a platform-agnostic approach to writing with gen AI. Every app has its own tech tutorials, but in this course we’ll focus on transferable gen AI principles and writing skills that you can use with any chat-based generative AI program. In the course, you’ll see examples primarily from the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot. But you can use this course to improve your work with other chat-based writing tools, including paid or custom programs you might have access to at work.

Who should take this course?
You can join this course if you haven’t yet experimented with gen AI and want a specific, guided way to learn and practice. Or, if you are already confident using these tools, this course provides a writing-focused framework for evaluating and validating their output. You are also welcome to join if you just want to brush up on your workplace writing and editing skills. Every practice exercise can be done on your own or with help from gen AI.

Is this a creative writing course?
No. The Writing & Editing course focuses on an editorial process for workplace and professional writing. You’ll see examples of LinkedIn bios, interpersonal emails, reports, email marketing campaigns, and more. It’s not a course about creative writing tasks, like short stories or memoirs.

When are the classes?
This is a self-paced, two-week course with optional live office hours. We’ll email you recorded course lessons bi-weekly. Watch them on your own schedule. Then, you can drop in to the optional office hours on Zoom to ask questions about the course material or show your work to one of the instructors. 

Week 1 Lessons:

Course Intro & ground rules for writing with gen AI • Ethics, accuracy, and privacy.

The “ART” of audience awareness • Learn the ART (Audience, Result, and Tone) tool and use gen AI to evaluate potential audiences for your writing. The ART tool will inform your prompts in the next lesson.

Prompt engineering • Learn how to structure detailed gen AI prompts and incorporate your ART into goal-specific instructions for AI. Learn when and how to use examples within your prompts. Use our starter template and explore prompt libraries for any writing task.

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

[Optional] Office Hours • TBA

Week 2 Lessons:

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

Editing AI-generated copy • Learn the linguistic habits that plague both wordy humans and AI output. Revise for specific signs of AI-generated copy. Keep your written products sounding human, concise, and on-brand.

Testing, editing, and proofreading • Try out the best tools for proofreading and style edits, and learn how to use them as an adjunct to gen AI’s editing capabilities. Combine tools for a comprehensive view of your writing.

[Optional] Office Hours • TBA

"I thoroughly enjoyed the AI-Assisted Writing and Editing course offered by Bold Type. Not only did I learn how to use AI effectively in writing and editing, but I also received a valuable introduction on how to compose messages well. Both aspects of the class were invaluable. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their writing skills actively for any purpose."

- Peter, Director, Strategic Transformation

After the course, you will be able to:

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

  • Create, customize, and re-use effective gen AI prompts for your 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

  • Edit for signs of AI-generated copy

  • Use a combination of tools to help you with style, grammar, and proofreading

Participants will keep:

  • 30-day access to the course lesson videos

  • The ART tool for Audience Awareness

  • A copy-and-paste template for prompting gen AI through an audience, result, and tone analysis

  • Bold Type’s editing process checklist: a one-pager to help you review documents at every level

  • A detailed, fill-in-the-blank prompt template that guides you through the essential elements of prompt engineering, leaving room for you to customize for each writing task

  • Our recommendations for prompt libraries, editing tools, and plugins to bookmark

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

  • The PowerPoint slides for all lessons, packed with before-and-after examples

Pricing:

  • $249 early bird price until November 15th. Use code EARLYBIRD.

  • $299 starting November 16th.

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Casey empowered our team to think deliberately about what we’re writing, before we even put words to paper: Who’s this for? How should it make them feel? How do I do that? Of course, there are tools out there to help with writing. But Casey really emphasized the strategic/human element of this work, which AI can’t easily replace.”

- Ryan Holeywell, Executive Director, Mission Communications, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society