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Try it Out – Chapter 8

Try it Out

🔐 Integrity Tip:

AI can generate great email copy, but beware of tone mismatches. Always read aloud your AI-generated email before hitting send—if it sounds like a chatbot pretending to be your boss, it probably needs a rewrite.

 

🔮Future Connection:

This chapter builds on several skills you’ve already started developing. Back in Chapter 3, you practiced writing with clarity and impact—those same habits are crucial in emails, where tone and structure often have to do all the heavy lifting. Later, in Chapter 10, you’ll apply these same communication strategies during virtual meetings, where professionalism and clarity can either strengthen or strain a team dynamic. And in Chapter 11, you’ll step into team collaboration scenarios where managing shared documents, writing updates, and giving feedback will rely on the email and messaging etiquette you’re sharpening right now. These small messages are often the glue that holds team projects together—and learning to write them well makes you someone others can trust.

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 8 – Email and Digital Correspondence

    This week’s assignment focuses on improving professional email and messaging skills using AI. Students will evaluate tone, structure, and etiquette in digital communication, and practice revising messages to reflect clarity, professionalism, and platform-appropriate style.

    Learning Objective

    Students will:

    • Use AI to evaluate and revise email and digital messages
    • Strengthen tone, structure, and clarity in workplace communication
    • Apply etiquette strategies across platforms like email, chat, and shared docs

    Assignment Flow

    1. Ask AI for Help Writing a Polished Email
      Students will prompt an AI tool to generate a professional email asking for clarification on a project deadline. They’ll critique the AI’s tone, structure, and alignment with chapter principles.
    2. Revise a Digital Message Artifact
      Students will choose a casual or unclear workplace message and prompt AI to revise it for clarity and professionalism. They’ll evaluate the AI’s suggestions and reflect on what worked—and what needed human refinement.
    3. Edit the AI’s Email for Real-World Use
      Using Track Changes, students will refine the AI-generated message to improve tone, structure, and readability. A short reflection will connect their edits to real-world communication scenarios.

  • 📌 Note: The full assignment, including templates and submission instructions, is available in Canvas under Module 8.

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