ENGL226 WEEK 4 DISCUSSION

Discussion Prompt:

This week’s lesson discusses the writing process, overcoming communication barriers, organization, and strategies for both positive/routine and negative messages. Due at the end of this week is your first writing assignment, a positive/routine memo. This discussion will work through the planning step of the writing process to prepare that positive/routine message.

If you can prompt AI to write a message, you can prompt yourself to write that message! Therefore, in this discussion, we will discuss strategies for effective AI prompting as a way to review effective strategies for accomplishing your purpose for your target audience.

First, review the instructions for the , including the provided rubric.

Second, review to prepare to write your Week 4 positive/routine memo assignment. As this exercise shows, if you just give an AI tool the instructions for the Week 4 writing assignment, the result is not good. Therefore, let’s talk about how you might craft an effective prompt to generated better AI results… and as a way to prompt yourself by analyzing your audience, purpose, and strategies to be used in writing!

          Before Thursday midnight, analyze your audience and purpose for the Week 4 positive/routine message assignment by writing a prompt for AI that includes the following:

          • Role: Who are you as the writer of the message in relation to the audience (i.e., who are you or the AI tool acting as when writing this message)?
          • Audience: Who is the ? (If there is more than one type of audience group/member, how are they similar/different?) What do they want? What do they need? What do they expect?
          • Purpose: What should the message do for the audience(s)? What do you want them to do or feel after reading this message?
          • Parameters: How do you want the message to accomplish its purpose? What are some strategies (, , one of , etc.) that you should use in the message? What is the format of the message (memo, letter, email, etc.)?

            Remember, AI is a tool and always just OPTIONAL to use. However, learning to prompt AI is like learning to prompt yourself as a writer. Your prompt has to explain the writing situation, providing the purpose, audience analysis, and strategies to use so that AI can write the message successfully. If you can prompt AI to write, then you can prompt yourself to write based on this understanding of the purpose, audience, and writing strategies to accomplish the purpose for that audience!

            Requirements: FOLLOW PROMPT

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