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Generative AI to Improve Your Writing

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Beginner content levelBeginner

Tips and Tricks for Technical and Business Writers

Course Outcomes:

  • Understand the basics of ChatGPT and its capabilities
  • Learn the importance of privacy and verifying output accuracy
  • Explore approaches for generating content ideas and prompts

AI language models like ChatGPT can revolutionize writing by boosting productivity and unleashing creativity. Professionals of all kinds can use ChatGPT to jumpstart and streamline tasks that involve writing. With this technology, idea generation and brainstorming sessions can become more focused and productive. Complex documents can be summarized quickly, and reports, emails, and presentations can be outlined and written more efficiently. With its ability to generate coherent and contextually relevant text, ChatGPT is a powerful asset for crafting compelling blog posts, marketing copy, and much more. It can be a powerful tool, but it doesn’t relieve the writer of responsibility for ensuring that content is well-presented and accurate.

Join expert David Griffiths to discover how to combine the strengths of AI language models with professional writing techniques to unlock the full potential of ChatGPT.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Refine and improve generated text
  • Apply professional writing techniques including tone, structure, and formatting
  • Use techniques and plug-ins like meta-prompting, Show Me, and AskYourPDF

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re a business or technical professional who wants to write more efficiently.
  • You’re already using ChatGPT but want to optimize your interactions and improve the quality of the generated output.
  • You’re a content creator or author seeking assistance in generating ideas and refining your writing.
  • You work in sales and marketing and are looking for innovative approaches to copywriting and content creation.
  • You’re a researcher or academic in need of help with summarizing, synthesizing, and extracting information from texts.

Prerequisites

Recommended preparation:

  • Create a ChatGPT account (this is optional but necessary if you want to participate in the exercises)

Recommended follow-up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Introduction (5 minutes)

Simple Prompts (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: The 7 parts of a prompt
  • Exercise: Constructing a large prompt
  • Q&A

From Prompts to Conversations (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Refine and iterate technique
  • Presentation: The writing stages

Getting Ideas (20 minutes)

  • Presentation: Modes of persuasion
  • Presentation: Mind Maps for focussing ideas
  • Exercise: Create ideas for a documentary
  • Q&A
  • BREAK (5 minutes)

Creating a motivated outline (35 minutes)

  • Presentation: Amanuensis Technique
  • Demo: A worked example
  • Presentation: The need for motivation
  • Demo: Adding motivation with a chatbot
  • Exercise: Create a motivated outline
  • Q&A

Trimming the outline (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: The 10 minute rule and triage
  • Q&A

The write-up: Part 1 - presentations (25 minutes)

  • Presentation: Converting an outline to slides
  • Demo: Using AI inside Powerpoint
  • Exercise: Convert an outline to a presentation
  • Q&A
  • BREAK (5 minutes)

The write-up: Part 2 - documents (35 minutes)

  • Presentation: Creating body text
  • Presentation: Using styles to create a voice
  • Demo: Using AI inside Google Docs and Microsoft Word
  • Exercise: Rewrite text in a given style
  • Q&A

The write-up: Part 2 - Diagrams and graphics (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Creating diagrams with AI
  • Demo: Creating interactive graphics with Claude AI
  • Q&A

Next Steps (5 minutes)

Your Instructor

  • David Griffiths

    David Griffiths founded HereScreen Ltd and is the author or coauthor of seven books, including Head First Android Development and The React Cookbook. David has also written for magazines about software development and created online training material.

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Skill covered

Generative AI