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Prompting Essentials

Write clear instructions that get useful, specific results from any AI chat tool.

1. Lesson 1 · 10 min

   The anatomy of a good prompt

   Learn

   A strong prompt usually has four parts: the role or context, the task, the details that matter, and the format you want back.

   Example: 'You are a friendly customer support writer. Rewrite this reply to be warm and under 80 words. Keep the refund date. Return only the new reply.'

   Practise This

   Take a one-line prompt you used recently and rewrite it with all four parts. Compare the two results.

   Build With What You Learned

   Save your best rewritten prompt as a reusable template.

2. Lesson 2 · 10 min

   Examples and iteration

   Learn

   Showing one or two examples of what you want is often more effective than describing it.

   Treat prompting as a conversation: ask for changes ('shorter', 'more formal', 'as a table') instead of starting over.

   Practise This

   Give an AI tool two examples of product descriptions you like, then ask it to write a third in the same style.

   Build With What You Learned

   Use iteration to produce one piece of real writing you need this week.

3. Lesson 3 · 8 min

   Build your own prompt library

   Learn

   Keep the prompts that work. A small library of tested prompts saves time and gives more consistent results.

   Name each prompt by its job, note which tool you used, and add placeholders like [TOPIC] or [AUDIENCE].

   Practise This

   Create three reusable prompts with placeholders for tasks you repeat often.

   Build With What You Learned

   Use one of your library prompts on a real task and refine it based on the result.