Tips
Input
Give AI a role.
- ✅ You are an academic journal editor. Rewrite this abstract to meet publishing standards and improve clarity.
Given AI Enough Context
- ❌ Summarize this paper.
- ✅ Summarize this neuroscience paper in 200 words, highlighting the main challenges, hypotheses, methods, and conclusion for a graduate-level audience.
No “Please” or “Thanks”. This may change the output tone.
Giving Examples to AI
- Read this and say read when done: …
- Using what you just read … write …
Thought Process
- Writing down steps directly.
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- Summarize the article.
- Now revise it for an academic conference abstract, 250 words.
- Simplify the language slightly for non-specialists in the audience.
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Output
Give AI a target audience.
- ❌ Explain quantum entanglement.
- ✅ Explain quantum entanglement to a high school student using analogies and simple language.
Give AI a specific format for the response.
- ❌ Write about the impacts of climate change.
- ✅ Create a table comparing the effects of climate change on agriculture in three countries, using peer-reviewed data only.
Constraints
- ✅ Write a …. Avoid background information or future directions.
- ✅ Write a …. focusing only on the methodology.
Setting the right tone with AI
- ✅ Rewrite this paragraph in academic tone using active voice and hedging statements like ‘it appears’ or ‘the data suggests’.”