Module 9 · Level II · Practitioner

AI for writing, research and analysis

Drafting, summarising, researching and analysing data with AI, with the checking habits that keep your name safe on the result.

6 lessons · about 1 hour

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What’s inside

  1. 01
    Drafting and editing with AI, in your own voice

    How to use AI for first drafts and edits without ending up with text that sounds like everyone else's. · 10 min

  2. 02
    Summarising long documents and meetings

    How to get summaries you can rely on, from reports, contracts and meeting recordings, and where they quietly go wrong. · 10 min

  3. 03
    Researching with sources you can check

    Using AI search, research modes and document-based tools to find things out, and how to tell a real source from a plausible one. · 11 min

  4. 04
    Analysing spreadsheets and data, and checking the numbers

    How to get AI to calculate rather than guess, and a short routine for checking any figure it gives you. · 11 min

  5. 05
    Writing for a specific reader

    Using AI to adapt the same information for different people, and to test your writing from the reader's side. · 9 min

  6. 06
    Checking and signing off: your name, your responsibility

    A proportionate sign-off routine for AI-assisted work, and why 'the AI wrote it' is never a defence. · 10 min

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