Learning objectives
By the end of this exercise, you will be able to:
- Apply an AI editorial review to an existing draft
- Distinguish between suggestions that improve clarity and suggestions that change your voice or meaning
- Revise a draft using a mix of accepted, edited, and rejected AI suggestions
Before you begin
Use the same draft post from Practical: Draft with AI writing tools, or start a new one. Either way, your draft needs a few real paragraphs of writing already in it: an editorial review has nothing to work with on an empty post. You will need your connected AI provider from Module 1.
Running an editorial review
Open your draft and run the AI editorial review tool. Read through every suggestion before accepting anything, grouping them loosely as:
- Grammar or clarity fixes
- Tone or style changes
- Factual or structural changes
📸 Screenshot placeholder: the editorial review panel showing a list of suggestions grouped by type on a sample draft.
Deciding what to keep
Go suggestion by suggestion:
- Accept the ones that clearly improve clarity
- Edit the ones that are directionally right but not quite in your voice
- Reject anything that changes your meaning or claims something you didn’t say
💡 Why this matters for you: An editorial AI tool is a second pair of eyes, not a final say. The more comfortable you get overriding suggestions that don’t fit your voice, the more useful the tool becomes rather than a source of generic-sounding content.
What you’ll have when you’re done: a revised draft with a clear record of which AI suggestions you accepted, edited, or rejected, and why.
✅ Check your understanding
- Which AI suggestion were you most tempted to accept without editing, and what made you pause?
- Did the review catch anything you had genuinely missed? What was it?