The fantastic Public Health Communications Collaborative recently released Overcoming Challenges & Leveraging Strengths, an action guide looking at what makes public health communications programs effective. The authors examined the broad…
Lately I’ve caught myself getting a little bit lazy when I’m prompting AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Which is funny, because I know better. The more I use chatbots in my…
This post originally appeared on the website of the Center for Plain Language, a nonprofit organization that helps government agencies and businesses write clear and understandable communications. Writers are increasingly…
Learning to interact with AI without the cut-and-paste Pre-prepared AI prompts are available everywhere. You’ll find them in places like LinkedIn posts, online AI courses, and curated prompt libraries. “Just…
“I don’t want to become dependent on AI” I hear people say that one of their worries about using AI is that they won’t be able to work without it.…
A lot of writers, including me, ask this question because we want to create content with help from AI that doesn’t READ like it was AI-generated. Our real question is,…
Part 1: Deciding whether your meeting could be an email instead Meetings suck. Unnecessary meetings waste time, get in the way of other work, and generally tick people off. They…
Actually, it’s more like a herd of elephants in the room. I’ve been struggling lately thinking about the moral and ethical issues surrounding AI use. Am I making things worse…
Sure, you can open ChatGPT and ask it to write a report for you. But what you’ll get is bland, generic, and uninformative—what’s become known as “AI slop.” Learn how to spot and avoid writing that fills space without delivering value.
AI-generated writing overuses the em dash, which is where this poor punctuation mark got its bad reputation. But it’s not just an issue of overuse—the em dash is part of larger sentence patterns that make writing sound generic and robotic.
ChatGPT is my biggest fan! 🏆I bet it’s your biggest fan, too! 🏆 It’s constantly telling me how brilliant and insightful I am. It’s the digital equivalent of one of…
To ✨ or not to ✨, that is the question. ChatGPT (and similar Gen AI tools) love to sprinkle those little Unicode emojis into your text. But it’s not always…