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Try It Out- Chapter 3

Try it Out

🔐 Integrity Tip:

If you’re pasting a real message into an AI tool for revision, scrub personal details first. Even better—practice rewriting similar messages using invented names and situations to stay on the safe side.

 

🔮Future Connection:

We’ll return to these clarity and tone strategies later when drafting emails (Chapter 8), collaborating on proposals (Chapter 11), and managing tone in leadership messages (Chapter 12). Every edit today builds muscle for real-world credibility later.

Each chapter, has a corresponding AI-supported learning activity designed to help you engage more deeply with the concepts. These assignments are hosted in Canvas and follow a structured, iterative process using a provided template. You’ll use AI tools to:

  • Explore and clarify key ideas from the chapter
  • Practice applying concepts to real-world or professional scenarios
  • Reflect on your learning and refine your understanding through guided prompts

This assignment is an opportunity to build your confidence in using AI as a collaborative learning partner. It will help you develop critical thinking, communication, and digital literacy skills essential for success in modern business environments.

👉 To begin, go to the corresponding module in Canvas and open the “Weekly AI Assignment” for this chapter.

  • AI Practice Assignment Preview: Chapter 3 – Sharpening Business Writing with AI

    This week’s assignment focuses on transforming vague, robotic, or overly formal writing into clear, professional business communication. Students will use AI tools to analyze and revise real-world inspired messages, applying principles of plain language, active voice, and tone refinement.

    Learning Objective

    Students will:

    • Use AI to analyze and revise written business messages
    • Apply chapter principles to improve clarity, tone, grammar, and structure
    • Practice editing AI-generated content using Track Changes

    Assignment Flow

    1. Explore Business Writing Strategies with AI
      Students will prompt an AI tool to explain strategies for improving clarity and professionalism in business writing. They’ll critique the response based on chapter concepts.
    2. Revise a Real-World Inspired Artifact
      Students will select a problematic message (e.g., overly vague or bureaucratic) and prompt AI to revise it. They’ll evaluate the suggestions and reflect on what worked—and what didn’t.
    3. Refine the AI Output with Human Insight
      Using Track Changes, students will edit the AI’s revision to better reflect human-centered communication. A short reflection will connect their edits to future writing tasks like emails, proposals, and leadership messages.

  • 📌 Note: The full assignment, including templates and submission instructions, is available in Canvas under Module 3.

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