Scientific and Academic Writing in the Age of AI
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3 x 3 hr. webinars
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Trainer: Mark Edwards
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Maximising your output and originality without compromise
AI is transforming that way that we all work. Used wisely it is a highly helpful time-saver, and it can make a powerful research assistant. However – it cannot do your thinking for you. This course examines how to develop powerful focus in your writing – an infallible guide to developing the best structure, and effectively communicating your ideas to your target audience. We look at how to systematically improve the impact, clarity and accuracy of your chosen words. You will receive a toolbox of methods including a range of easily-applied ‘quick tips’ that will improve how seriously your ideas are taken.
You will receive a clear process to follow when approaching an important piece of writing. How to start, develop and express your ideas plus a checklist of conceptual and practical filters to apply to your work to edit and improve your earlier drafts - shaping your writing from ‘good enough’ to ‘exactly fitted to its purpose’.
In this tip-filled seminar, we will examine and discuss:
- Why bother building my writing skills at all?...surely AI takes care of this?
- The role of AI assistance – How much, how far, how to get the best from it.
- Structuring your writing and selecting and controlling the appropriate tone.
- Fitting your message to your target audience.
- Crystallizing and articulating your thinking – improve your ability to summarise, critique and report on the writing and thinking of others.
- How to use AI as a powerful editing tool; strictly prescribed prompting and editorial control.
- Building the ability to speak fluently, articulately and cogently about your topic in unscripted circumstances.
- How to judge the output from AI and adjust the verb use to better convey shades of meaning.
- How to write better AI prompts.
- Tips for writing productivity.
- Achieving a good ‘flow’ of ideas and expression.
- Achieving impact by careful word choice.
- Clarity, brevity and style of English.
- Hated words to avoid in your text.
All of these writing skills are examined in the context of a variety of writing and editing tasks. The online presentation includes individual exercises with feedback, group discussion and small group work, as well as inspiring input from an established native-speaking communications expert. The result is a lively and varied learning experience for all.
In this course, the participants also work on examining and editing a short piece of their own writing (500-600 words – for example, an abstract or an extract from the introduction, a key passage or conclusion). The participants will be sent a pre-course briefing during the week preceding the course.
