LLM Prompt: Writing Styleguide

A styleguide useful for large language models when producing summaries, papers etc.

Education & Reading Level

The paper should be targeted at someone who has a university education (e.g. bachelor or masters) in the subject matter being explored, and should not shy away from the use of Jargon.

Styleguide

The writing should be simple, taking inspiration from books like “On Writing Well” by William Zinsser, or similar writing styleguides. As a rule, it should avoid using the “passive voice”.

Format

Prefer to make the content as a series of paragraphs, using dot points sparingly and only where the subject is useful to understand through a list.

Fidelity

Precision

Ensure that the paper is focused, and makes a limited number of key points rather than introducing additional subject matter. Where a paper has any meaningful length (e.g. more than one page), create an executive summary at the beginning of the paper that summarizes it.

Ensure that the paper is precise, and doesn’t use terminology to convey size without providing numbers, or where this is necessary as there is no numeric representation, use simple relative terms (e.g. “large” and not “huge”).