“This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.”

Your colleagues can tell when you use AI to write — and they're too polite to say so. Research on "AI smell" shows that readers quietly rate AI-generated messages as less sincere, less caring, and less trustworthy, even when the writing looks polished on the surface. This course teaches you exactly how to spot the six clusters of AI tells hiding in your drafts and turn any AI-assisted writing into something that reads like you, not a language model.

By the end of this course, you'll run every AI draft through a repeatable three-pass edit — Cut, Break, Add — that turns robotic prose human in 10 to 15 minutes, and you'll build a voice profile and prompt library that produce human-sounding first drafts before you even start editing. You won't just memorise a list of banned words; you'll learn to hear the rhythm, structure, and vocabulary patterns that give AI writing away, and how to break them for good.

The problem and the tells. Learn what AI smell actually costs you in trust and credibility, and build your own field guide to every major AI tell — vocabulary, punctuation, sentence rhythm, and structure.

The three-pass edit. Master the Cut, Break, Add system: strip filler and hedging, break up robotic sentence patterns, and add the specifics, stories, and opinions only you can supply.

Prompting for human output. Build a documented voice profile from your own past writing and use it to prompt AI tools for first drafts that need far less editing.

Channel by channel. Apply the fixes to the formats that matter most at work — emails, LinkedIn posts, reports and proposals, marketing copy, and the messages AI should never touch at all.

Making it stick. Audit your own recent writing, follow a 30-day plan to make the edit automatic, and build a team style guide so the system scales beyond just you.

This course is built for business professionals who already use ChatGPT or similar tools to draft emails, reports, LinkedIn posts, and proposals, and want the result to sound like them instead of a bot. It's especially useful for managers and team leads whose AI-assisted writing may be quietly undermining how trustworthy they seem, and for anyone who's been told their writing "sounds like ChatGPT." If you're looking for AI-detection software, this isn't it — this course teaches editing and prompting skills, not a scanning tool.

Most AI-writing advice stops at avoiding a handful of flagged words. This course goes further: a repeatable editing system built on real patterns — vocabulary, punctuation, rhythm, and structure — backed by a practice drill that trains your ear to catch AI smell on sight, plus a full teardown showing every fix applied to a real business email from start to finish.

Enroll now and turn your next AI-assisted draft into writing your reader will actually trust.

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