Quality You Define for Writing that is Yours
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Stop reading now if your writing is already perfect!
But this article is for you if, like me, you are open to specific suggestions on how to improve a draft you’re working on.
Below is a Prompt that lists specific recommendations for you to consider when you are ready to revise your draft writing.
The Prompt identifies weaknesses in your draft text based on quality criteria you define, then it suggests alternative fixes for each.
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Here’s what this Prompt outputs:
Specific text in your draft that violates the Quality Criteria; grouped into Significant, Moderate, and Minor violation categories.
Clear explanation of why the AI identified a piece of text as weak, even taking into account the strengths it found in the weak text.
Three alternative fixes for each piece of weak text. Use one, use your own fix, or don’t make any change. The Prompt does not directly revise the original text.
Here’s how to deploy the Prompt:
Upload your draft text to your AI. For me, this is a text file with a draft of an article in preparation.
Paste the Prompt below into your AI chatbox. Paste everything between the hashmarks.
Edit the Goal, Quality Criteria, and Context to fit your needs. Be sure to leave “High Quality” in your Goal.
Execute the prompt.
Here’s the Prompt:
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Goal: Prepare high quality article for my newsletter.
Quality Criteria (QC): Accuracy, logic, clarity, narrative flow, precision without pedantry, conversational without drama.
Context: Upload latest version of my draft.
Improvement Process: List: (a) the exact piece of text that is weak on QC, with enough contiguous text so I can find the exact weak text in the draft; (b) a summary of its strengths on the QC; (c) the explicit QC violated and a summary of its weaknesses on them, (d) 3 alternative fixes to convert its QC weaknesses to strengths, with a justification for each alternative fix.
Task: Read Context carefully, then identify text in it that is weak on QC. For each weakness identified, do the Improvement Process. If there are no weaknesses on QC, say “No weaknesses found”.
Constraint #1: If you hit a genuine tie or tradeoff between QC that affects a fix, flag it for me and ask directly rather than resolving it silently or requesting upfront rules that may never be needed.
Constraint #2: Do not sacrifice substance for brevity.
Constraint #3: If you find more than one piece of text that violates the QC, use 3 Violation Categories (Significant, Moderate, Minor) to list the text in order of violation from Significant to Minor. For each, briefly explain your categorization. After listing everything in one category, briefly summarize the areas of weakness found in it, then ask before proceeding to the next. When finished with the Task, say “Finished”.
Constraint #4: Do not make changes directly to the Context. Show me the task results for my review. Do not generate file for download.
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I hope you will get as much value from this Prompt as I do. Keep on writing!
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