CS-215 AI Literacy
Topic 04 · Professional writing studio

Reviewable AI-Assisted WritingAI coaches. You write.

AI may coach your writing—ask questions, critique your structure, point to unclear spots—but every sentence you submit is yours. You stay responsible for permission, privacy, facts, disclosure, and the final document.

Before class

Think of one problem you’ve actually lived—at school, at work, in a club or on a team—that a small fix could solve. Tuesday: bring a pen; you write on a printed sheet, and a laptop is optional. Thursday: your Tuesday sheet with Draft 1 comes back at the start of class; bring your laptop, with Claude Code from Week 2 if you have it. No laptop or no Claude Code? You’ll use the coach card from your Tuesday sheet on your own, for the same credit. No paid tool is needed.

By the end

Four outcomes you can demonstrate.

The focus is judgment students can show, not vocabulary they can merely repeat.

01 · PLAN

Generate and organize your own ideas first, then use questions—from the coach card or an AI coach—to stretch them.

02 · WRITE

Draft for a real reader in your own words: a specific problem, one fix, supported reasons, an answered objection, and a clear ask.

03 · REVISE

Write a coach prompt that makes AI ask and point instead of rewrite, then revise for flow yourself.

04 · ACCOUNT

Verify every fact, disclose AI help by stage, and explain every sentence without AI.

Class route

Two meetings with separate learning arcs.

Meeting 1 plans 70 taught minutes plus a 10-minute flex and access buffer; Meeting 2 plans 75 plus 5.

MEETING 1

You First: Ideas, Outline, Draft

Pick a problem you’ve lived, list what you’ve seen, answer an AI coach’s six questions, build the outline box by box, catch an over-helping AI, and write Draft 1 in your own words.

80 MIN
  1. Two pitches, one ruleWhich pitch gets a yes, and if AI can write it, why should you?
  2. Your problem, your ideas, a coachPick a problem you’ve lived, list what you’ve seen. The screen coaches: six questions, one at a time; you answer on your sheet.
  3. Outline + the over-helping AIFive boxes before any sentences; then decide what to do when AI hands you a finished outline.
  4. Draft 1Twenty minutes in your own words, no AI.
  5. Save four piecesCheck your sheet and hand it in; it comes back at the start of Thursday’s class.
  6. Flex/access bufferResolve access, finish checks, protect the transition.
Start Meeting 1
MEETING 2

Feedback, Not Rewrites: Grill, Revise, Disclose

Three cases on what feedback may and may not do; then install grill-me, run it in plan mode on Draft 1, revise in your own words, and assemble the packet.

80 MIN
  1. LaunchAct on, adapt, set aside; three cases, four roles, one laptop per table.
  2. Cases 1–3 · invented detail, feedback evidence, disclosureA recommended number nobody saw; proof you used the feedback; disclosure by stage.
  3. Install + Draft 1 fileInstall grill-me as two text files, type Draft 1 into draft1.md, and start Claude Code in plan mode.
  4. Grill + reviseOne round of questions, questions only; then rewrite in your own words and log three questions.
  5. Packet + closeAssemble the six parts, then separate the graded packet from the practice lab.
  6. Flex/access bufferFix setup trouble, finish the rewrite, ask packet questions.
In-class exerciseRevision Simulation

Three cases, four roles, one laptop per table. Your table relays through writer, review partner, instructor and editor, then writes the rule the case needed. Open it when your instructor names the case; it also works alone.

Open the simulation
Start Meeting 2
Evidence

Reviewable Revision Packet

Show that an AI-assisted revision was permitted, protected, reviewed, verified, disclosed, and understood.

What to submit

  • Submit one PDF through eCampus before Topic 5 as Lastname-Topic04-RevisionPacket.pdf. Use the eCampus calendar for the exact date, time, timezone, and late or resubmission rules.
  • Complete the six parts in order: Permission and privacy; Plan and Draft 1; Final pitch; Feedback log; Verification, disclosure, defense; Before / After / Why.
  • The final pitch is 250–400 words, every sentence yours, addressed to the person who can say yes.
  • The feedback log (Part 4) holds three questions from /grill-me or the coach card: one acted on (quote your new sentence), one adapted, one set aside. Each has your reason. This is the only log; do not duplicate it.
  • Part 5 holds each fact or number with where you saw it or how you checked it, a two-sentence defense of your strongest reason written without AI, and a disclosure of each stage in the frame “I used ___ at ___ to ___; afterwards I ___.”
  • Complete the submission check: AI wrote none of my sentences; each stage of AI help is disclosed; no chat history, credentials or private details; I can explain every sentence without AI; one PDF, correctly named.
Open assignment
References

Core sources and optional extensions.

The class deck contains the required explanation. These links support verification, deeper reading, or alternate access.

Reviewable Revision PacketComplete assignment, both equal-credit routes (/grill-me in Claude Code, or the coach card on your own), submission order, rubric, and example.Printable Revision Packet PDFPrint, annotate, or save the same assignment offline.Optional practice · Brief Simulation (email case)The earlier Meeting 1 email cases: what may enter a tool and what a request must return. Optional; not used in class. Written for the earlier rule, when AI could revise a practice email; this week, AI coaches and you write.After Meeting 2 · Agent Improvement Loop LabLow-stakes six-question browser practice on contracts, verifiers, stopping, handoff, persistence, and held-out evaluation. No installed agent required.Agent Improvement LoopsOptional course reading that explains the improvement loop behind the practice.Copilot in WordOptional official Microsoft feature and availability documentation.Microsoft prompt frameworkOfficial goal, context, expectations, and source guidance.Claude for WordOptional official documentation. In Topic 4 an AI tool may comment and ask questions; it never edits your sentences.Purdue AI citation guideOptional practical disclosure/citation reference; course policy controls.English academic revision extensionMeeting 2, Screen 9: rewrite in your own words where the questions point, log three questions, and write one Before/After/Why.grill-me SKILL.mdMatt Pocock’s grill-me skill, hosted unchanged: the file you install and run as /grill-me in Meeting 2. Read it before you install it.grilling SKILL.mdMatt Pocock’s grilling skill, hosted unchanged: the question rules grill-me hands off to.LICENSE (MIT)The MIT license that covers both skill files, verbatim from Matt Pocock’s repository.Upstream source: mattpocock/skills at the pinned commitWhere the grill-me and grilling skill files (Matt Pocock, MIT) come from: his repository on GitHub, at the commit the course hosts.