This practical course is designed for executives, team leaders, and administrative professionals seeking to enhance their communication skills by leveraging generative AI in various professional contexts. This course will guide participants through the fundamentals of AI-infused professional communication, including drafting emails, creating meeting agendas, summarizing documents, and producing compelling social media content. The professor will utilize a tested Rhetorical Prompt Engineering Framework to ensure that participants learn to leverage the most useful, relevant, accurate, and ethical outputs when collaborating with generative AI Assistants.
This course provides point-of-need demos and simulations of prompting for professional communication outputs. It provides participants with the skills to explain how the steps of the Rhetorical "Rhet" Shot Engineering framework influence communication effectiveness, analyze communication scenarios to determine the appropriate audience, tone, and style using the framework, create compelling communication pieces tailored to specific purposes, audiences, and genres using the Rhetorical "Rhet" Shot Engineering framework, and evaluate communication outputs generated by AI Assistants using the framework's criteria, recommending improvements for tone, style, and content.
What's included
3 videos6 readings1 discussion prompt
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3 videos•Total 16 minutes
Course Intro Video•1 minute
Course Learning Objectives•1 minute
AI Definitions•13 minutes
6 readings•Total 55 minutes
Meet the Instructor•10 minutes
Discussion Forum Guidelines•10 minutes
Get help and meet other learners in this course. Join your discussion forums!•5 minutes
About Peer Reviews•10 minutes
About the Assignments•10 minutes
AI Concepts and Examples•10 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Meet and Greet•10 minutes
Main Content
Module 2•3 hours to complete
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What's included
7 videos2 readings2 peer reviews
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7 videos•Total 46 minutes
Introducing the "Rhet Shot" Prompt Engineering Model•6 minutes
Use Case: Creating Charts and Graphs•11 minutes
Use Case Review•2 minutes
Remaining Steps in "Rhet Shot" Prompt Engineering Model•9 minutes
Use Case: Creating Meeting Agendas and Summaries•15 minutes
Use Case: Creating Social Media Posts•3 minutes
Final Thoughts and Instructions•1 minute
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
Course Readings/Slides•10 minutes
Course Notes and Resource Links•10 minutes
2 peer reviews•Total 120 minutes
Assignment•60 minutes
Reflection Writing•60 minutes
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While this is a beginner course, it does a great job of giving you a framework that is a useful template every to use the AI assistant as a tool to enhance your writing.
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