Proofreading, Revision & AI as a Writing Coach
Workplace product
Revised healthcare communication
Course goals advanced
- 1. Grammar and Sentence Competency
- 2. Professional Workplace Writing
- 4. Documentation-Style Writing and Professional Responsibility
Spiraling back
This topic revisits grammar you met earlier, in a harder context: Topic 2, Topic 3, Topic 4, Topic 6, Topic 9.
Essential Question
How can I use AI to improve my writing without allowing AI to take responsibility for my work?
Teaching & Learning Concepts
The communication principles, workplace expectations, and healthcare context behind this topic.
- Revising versus proofreading — revising changes what the writing says; proofreading fixes how it is written. Do them in that order.
- AI as a writing coach: what it is good at, and what it cannot do
- Prompting for feedback rather than for a rewrite
- Checking AI suggestions instead of accepting them
- Hallucination — AI invents facts, citations, and details with complete confidence
- Privacy and HIPAA: patient information must never be entered into an AI tool
- You remain responsible for the final content, whatever produced the draft
Grammar Focus
A small set of high-value grammar skills, tied directly to this topic's communication task.
Spiraling error checklist
- Agreements: subject–verb, and pronoun–antecedent
- Fragments and run-ons
- Punctuation and capitalization
- Word choice — the confusable pairs from every earlier list
Healthcare Vocabulary
This topic's spelling and usage words. Earlier lists spiral forward — turn them on to review.
Word Bank — List 14
Flip each card for the meaning and an example.
Formative Practice
Guided activities and short exercises. None of this is graded — it is here so you can find out what you know before it counts.
Error hunt
This message is going to a patient. Find every error before it does.
Click the text carrying each error. Clicking correct text counts against you — flagging everything is not proofreading.
Human editing versus AI editing
Where each one helps, and where each one fails.
Practice only — nothing here is graded or recorded.
AI feedback lab
The full chain: your original, the AI's feedback, your evaluation of that feedback, and your revision. Panel 3 is the one that matters.
AI can suggest. You decide.
Never paste patient information into an AI tool — no names, no dates of birth, no identifiable details. Use the practice text below or your own work with every identifier removed.
Need something to work with? Use this draft.
Dear Mr. Osei, Your appointment is coming up soon. Please make sure you don't eat anything beforehand and bring all your stuff. If you have any issues just let us know. We look forward to seeing you. Thanks, The Office
Paste one piece of healthcare writing you produced earlier in this course.
Ask an AI tool for feedback and paste its response here. Ask it to identify unclear wording, grammar problems, and tone — not to rewrite it for you.
Which suggestions are right, and which are wrong or would make it worse? Say why for each. This is the part that is yours.
Rewrite it, using the suggestions you accepted and ignoring the ones you rejected.
Spot the bad AI revision
An AI tool produced the revision below. It reads well. Check every problem you can find before revealing the answers.
Dear Mr. Osei, Your appointment is scheduled for Tuesday, 21 October at 8:30 a.m. Please fast for a minimum of 12 hours beforehand, and bring your insurance card, photo ID, and a complete list of your current medications including dosages. Per CDC guideline 2019-A, patients over 60 should also discontinue anticoagulant therapy 48 hours prior. Warm regards, The Office Team
Words to spell, plus spiral review — List 14
Flip each card for the meaning and an example.
Cumulative Workplace Product
Combine this topic's grammar, vocabulary, and communication skills into something you would actually produce at work.
Revised healthcare communication
Take one piece of healthcare writing you produced earlier in this course and produce the full chain: the original, the AI feedback you received, your written evaluation of that feedback, and your revised final version. Submit all four parts. The evaluation is what is being assessed — it is the part only you can write.
Submit through Brightspace. This page is for drafting and self-checking.
Revision & Reflection
Review your work against the Communication Check, then name one thing to improve next time.
Communication Check
Check your own writing against all five. Not graded — saved in this browser only.
Think about
- Which AI suggestions did you reject, and could you defend each rejection?
- Did the AI change anything factual? Did you check it?
- Is your revision better, or just different?
Before You Leave
- Found every error in the error hunt
- Completed the human-versus-AI editing drill
- Completed all four panels of the AI feedback lab
- Identified every problem in the bad AI revision
- Submitted the four-part revision chain
AI can suggest. You decide.