Editing Essentials: Using AI to Elevate Your Writing
Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
Instructor: Ryan Standil
| Begin Time: |
9:00am Pacific Time
10:00am Mountain Time
11:00am Central Time
12:00pm Eastern Time |
| CPE Credit: |
2 hours for CPAs |
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In the “AI Era,” professionals face a key question when they take on a writing assignment: Should they
a) prepare a first draft on their own and then rely on AI to edit it, or
b) use AI to generate a first draft and then edit it themselves?
In August 2025, the CEO of Anthropic weighed in on this question. Dario Amodei said, “I use Claude to generate lots of ideas. You know, I kind of use it as research. But so far, I've done the writing myself.” In contrast, asking AI to produce a first draft can be more efficient when writing a mundane or routinized document.
In this course, we will assess human writing (paired with AI editing) as compared to AI writing (paired with human editing), and then we will examine specific editing techniques for the modern writer.
AI provides writers with the superpower to rapidly turn rough drafts into finished documents. However, in specialized fields, such as accounting and finance, strong writers have an exact sense of what they want to convey, so any imprecision in AI prompting will slow down the writing process. During this session, we will comb through the prompting techniques that ensure writers are using AI to speed up their editing, polish their drafts, and elevate their writing.
Who Should Attend
This course is for conscientious professionals who are committed to writing carefully but work in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines.
Topics Covered
- AI-Assisted Editing
- AI-Assisted Drafting
- Human Writing vs. AI Writing
- Benefits and Drawbacks of AI for Writing
- What trade-off? Speed and Accuracy Combined
Learning Objectives
- Rely on AI to rapidly edit your writing with a level of precision that is beyond human capabilities
- Instruct AI to instantly reveal typos, weak logic, inappropriate tone, inconsistency, and ambiguity
- Prompt AI in a way that elicits exact answers without yielding superfluous information or unnecessary suggestions
- Apply the minimalist approach to prompting in order to achieve maximum efficiency, while recognizing when a lengthier prompt is required
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Group: Internet-based
NASBA Field of Study
Business Management & Organization (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
