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ChatGPT to Improve Your Writing

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Beginner content levelBeginner

Tips and Tricks for Technical and Business Writers

  • 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 (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Modes of persuasion
  • Presentation: Six Thinking Hats
  • Exercise: Create ideas for a documentary
  • Q&A
  • Break (5 minutes)

Creating an outline (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Amanuensis Technique
  • Demo: A worked example
  • Exercise: Write the Tiramisu recipe
  • Q&A

Refine the outline (5 minutes)

  • Presentation: Split sections and triage
  • Q&A

The Write-Up (15 minutes)

  • Demo: Tent pole sentences
  • Presentation: The Writer's Toolbox
  • Demo: Images and diagrams
  • Q&A

Next Steps (5 minutes)

Your Instructor

  • David Griffiths

    David Griffiths is the founder of HereScreen Ltd, based in the UK. He’s the author of five books in the Head First series, including Head First Android Development and Head First Kotlin, as well as the React Cookbook; he’s also created courses in Android development and technical writing, and developed the animated video course The Agile Sketchpad with his wife, Dawn, as a way of teaching key concepts and techniques in a way that keeps your brain active and engaged.

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