AI Fluency: Prompt Like a Professional

By the end

What you'll build

• Explain in plain language how a large language model generates text and why fluency is not the same as truth
• Write professional prompts using the five components: role, task, context, format and constraints
• Choose correctly between zero-shot, few-shot and chain-of-thought patterns for a given task
• Get reliable structured output — tables, JSON-like formats and fixed templates — from messy input
• Build, test and reuse prompt templates for recurring work tasks
• Run a draft-critique-revise loop so AI-assisted writing is always better than the first draft
• Summarize documents and meetings and extract action items without leaking private or confidential data
• Spot, classify and fix hallucinations using a five-type failure taxonomy and a verification checklist
• Decide when NOT to use an AI assistant, and say so with confidence
• Assemble a personal AI-at-work playbook: three tested templates, a verification checklist and a do-not-use list

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 40 lessons

1. 01

   How AI Assistants Actually Work

   6 lessons
   • Start Here: What This Course Is (and Is Not)
   • The One Idea Behind Every AI Assistant
   • Tokens, Context Windows, and Why the AI 'Forgets'
   • Check: How the Machine Worksquiz
   • The Jagged Frontier: What AI Is Great At and Bad At
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Prompting Patterns That Work

   7 lessons
   • Anatomy of a Professional Prompt
   • Lab: Fix the Vague Promptprompt lab
   • Zero-Shot vs Few-Shot: Show, Don't Just Tell
   • Lab: Teach by Example — the Feedback Sorterprompt lab
   • Think Step by Step: Chain-of-Thought and Decomposition
   • + 2 more lessons
3. 03

   Structured Outputs You Can Actually Use

   4 lessons
   • Output Contracts: Tables, JSON and Fixed Formats
   • Lab: From Mess to Tableprompt lab
   • Reusable Prompt Templates
   • Check: Structured Outputsquiz
4. 04

   AI at Your Work, Every Day

   6 lessons
   • The Draft–Critique–Revise Loop
   • Lab: One Message, Three Audiencesprompt lab
   • Summarize, Extract, Transform — Safely
   • Lab: Meeting Notes → Action Itemsprompt lab
   • Assignment: Critique This Promptwriting lab
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Hallucinations and How to Catch Them

   6 lessons
   • Why AI Makes Things Up
   • Quiz: Spot the Riskquiz
   • Error Analysis: Autopsy of a Bad Answer
   • Lab: The Verification-First Promptprompt lab
   • Verification Habits Deckflashcard sr
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Capstone: Your AI-at-Work Playbook

   5 lessons
   • Capstone Brief: Build Your Playbook
   • Capstone Lab: Your Best Reusable Templateprompt lab
   • Capstone Assignment: Write the Playbookwriting lab
   • Final Check: AI Fluencyquiz
   • Honest Wrap: What You Can Do Now — and What's Next
7. 07

   Earning with AI: The Freelance Automation Route

   6 lessons
   • The Honest Map: Who Hires AI Skills Without a Degree
   • Package One Automation, Not "AI Services"
   • Drill: The Freelance Vocabularyfill blank
   • Quiz: Reading the Market Honestlyquiz
   • Write Your First Gig Pitchwriting lab
   • + 1 more lesson

The shape of it

How this course works