Writing With AI Skill 1: Conciseness

AI gives you text fast. Your job is to cut it down.

AI Text

Learning to edit is perhaps the most important skill to develop when working with AI writing tools. While AI can generate text quickly, the output often needs refinement to match your voice, sharpen arguments, and catch subtle errors in logic or tone. Editing transforms generic drafts into polished work that actually sounds like you.

Editing Pass 1: Clutter

Critiques

Learning to edit is perhaps the most important skill to develop when working with AI writing tools.

• “Learning to” → remove to get to the point faster.
• “Perhaps” → hedging. Commit or cut.
• “to develop when working” → Can remove without changing core point
• “Tools” → This is about AI writing, not tools

While AI can generate text quickly, the output often needs refinement to match your voice, sharpen arguments, and catch subtle errors in logic or tone

• “While” → Not needed
• “Can” → “Does” is stronger
• “Often” → Unnecessary hedging.
• “Subtle” → unnecessary adjective

Editing transforms generic drafts into polished work that actually sounds like you.

• “Polished”, “generic” → Unnecessary adjective. Let “work” stand for itself
• “Actually” → filler word that can be removed without changing meaning

Improved Version

Editing is the most important skill for AI writing. AI generates text quickly, but you must refine it to match your voice, sharpen arguments, and catch errors. Editing transforms drafts into work that sounds like you.

Editing Pass 2: Redundant Ideas

Critiques

• “match your voice” + “sounds like you” → Redundant
• “you must refine it“ + “Editing transforms drafts.” → Redundant

Improved Version

Editing is the most important skill for AI writing. AI generates text quickly, but you must refine it to sharpen arguments, catch errors, and make it yours.

Editing Pass 3: Tighten the language

Critiques

• “generates text quickly” → “writes fast”
• "you must refine it to..." → "Your job is to..."
• “sharpen arguments” → “sharp”
• “catch errors” →“true”

Improved Version

Editing is the most important skill for AI writing. AI writes fast. Your job is to make the draft sharp, true, and yours.