Think of AI tools like ChatGPT as your assistant that can automate the tedious parts of your job so it becomes less about catching mistakes and more about fine-tuning the content. You can integrate AI tools into your existing copyediting workflow to supercharge your efficiency and improve your accuracy. AI can help with content editing, too, by offering suggestions and even writing your editorial reports. In the end, it means less grunt work, faster turnaround times, higher-quality projects, and happier clients and bosses. 

Learning Objectives

• Understand the fundamentals of what AI tools are and how they work

• Explore generative AI's functionalities in an editorial workflow

• Forecast AI’s effect on the editing profession
   

Writing effective prompts (the instructions you give an AI tool) is the most essential AI for Editors skill. In this lesson, we'll delve deeper into the elements of a quality prompt and explore three pivotal prompt-engineering techniques:  

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Instruct: beginning with specific directions 
Add Context: adding the right details and nuance 
Refine: tweaking to achieve a tailored response 

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Learning Objectives

• Outline the essential elements in AI prompts

• Analyze the process of prompting, including writing effective follow-up prompts

• Practice formulating AI prompts to execute a variety of actions

Ready to streamline your copyediting workflow with AI? Using the techniques and prompts we’ll learn in this class, AI can do your first editing pass for you in minutes, freeing you up to do a more refined second pass and finish the project faster. In this lesson, we’ll discuss strategies to focus prompts specifically for a copyeditor’s needs and learn customizable prompt templates to use with copyediting tasks. Plus, we'll explore two methods for showing tracked changes with ChatGPT: the editGPT browser extension and comparing documents in Microsoft Word.

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Learning Objectives

• Recognize AI copyediting abilities

• Compose AI prompts that execute copyediting tasks

• Determine opportunities for workflow integration

AI's analytical and idea-generation capabilities empower editors to conduct deeper and more valuable content edits. With AI prompting from this lesson, you can automate high-level evaluations of structure, style, tone, audience fit, and more and then synthesize the data into a revision plan. We'll go through use cases for corporate communications editors, medical editors, and fiction editors.

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Learning Objectives

• Identify relevant content analyses

• Construct prompts that guide AI to produce content evaluations

• Combine AI analysis and idea generation into editing workflow

The rapid adoption of AI in content creation has led to a need for policies and guidelines to address ethical, copyright, and security issues. Guest presenter and AI policy expert, Amy Frushour Kelly, will guide you through how to develop an AI content policy and AI use disclosures that define your position on the acceptable use of generative AI.

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She will also cover how to handle other ethical situations you may encounter with AI technology, such as plagiarism, bias, data security, and more, using real-world examples as discussion topics.

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Learning Objectives

• Learn ethical best practices

• Write clear AI use disclosures that respect and inform the audience

• Discuss real-world AI ethics scenarios