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HOW TO OPTIMISE WRITING WITH CHAT GPT PROMPTS?
With the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, for the first time, many got the idea of what an AI chatbot can do when it comes to generating text.
Improving your writing skills can be an intimidating task, but with AI tools like ChatGPT, it can be a lot easier. ChatGPT not only answers questions, but it can assist you in generating new ideas, refining existing ones, and enhancing the quality of your overall writing. Whether you are a professional writer or just getting started, ChatGPT can help you overcome creative blocks.
By the end of this article, you will have a better understanding of how to use ChatGPT to improve your writing, focusing on the word “improve” and not on creating something from scratch.
Please take the following into account first…
ChatGPT is not like Google as it generates text, and it is not able to give overly-factual information or interact with the physical world. It is also not a human that you can instruct. Remember, you are not having a conversation.
For instance, if you asked ChatGPT to “proofread my essay and make corrections,” it might not know what specific changes or corrections you’re looking for without further clarification. It might suggest edits based on grammatical rules, but it might not have the contextual understanding that a human proofreader would bring to the task.
Primarily, ChatGPT is an insensible machine that you give text as an input in order to generate what you require. The more specific your prompt is, the better your ChatGPT response will be.
For example, if you ask ChatGPT, “Write an essay about Blockchain Technology”, the AI will generate a boring piece that hardly satisfies your needs.
However, if you change your approach and provide more specific bullet points to your prompts, you are far more likely to get the desired outcomes.
For example, “Write an essay about Blockchain Technology with the following points”:
Use a fun and witty tone that is thought-provoking and not too informal.
Use at least one clear example.
Make it concise.
Write for a well-informed audience.
Use a style like the New Yorker.
Make it at least four small paragraphs.
Vary the language in each one.
End with a pun.
However, notice that not every part of the prompt has been executed exactly. This is how generative AI works. You don’t always get what you ask for. This is why we don’t recommend using ChatGPT to write a copy for you from scratch. As it has:
Tendency to make up its own facts.
Tendency to go on its own tangent.
Instead, we suggest you use ChatGPT to:
Improve your vocabulary
Refine your writing skills
Generate ideas
Enhance existing copy, etc.
Things I learned using ChatGPT Prompts:
Some best practices in ChatGPT help you obtain the desired results:
1.) Know what you need: Define what you need and communicate it clearly and objectively when writing the prompt.
2.) Provide data and content: To get the best possible results from ChatGPT, give it as much relevant information as possible.
3.) Use specific Prompts: The more specific, the better. If your input lacks context, the response is likely to be vague.
4.) Ask for more examples or explanations: Ask the tool for more examples or explanations if the answers are unsatisfactory, even with specific inputs.
5.) Evaluate the responses: When you receive a response from ChatGPT, take time to evaluate it carefully. Look for ways to refine and improve it. Don’t just use them directly.
6 ChatGPT prompts to Improve writing
1. Use ChatGPT to improve your vocabulary
This prompt is useful when you encounter writer’s block or are stuck on finding the right word to convey a particular message, you can ask ChatGPT to suggest synonyms or antonyms.
2. Use ChatGPT to generate ideas
We have all had that moment when we find ourselves struggling with a new idea. ChatGPT can help writers come up with ideas that are relevant, informative, and creative.
One way to generate ideas is to put ourselves in the shoes of your target audience. For example, if you’re trying to come up with marketing ideas for a new product, you could ask ChatGPT to think like a potential customer and provide you with insights on what would appeal to them.
3. Ask for analogies and metaphors
For example, if you are writing about a mathematical concept, you could ask ChatGPT to provide a metaphor that would help you understand it better.
4. Hook suggestions for emails and blog posts
This prompt is useful when generating hook ideas for email marketing or blog posts, captivating readers from the beginning.
5. Use ChatGPT to refine your writing style
ChatGPT can guide various writing styles, including narrative, persuasive, descriptive, etc. It can also help you understand different writing genres so you can pick the best one to suit your needs for a particular writing piece. For example, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, etc. It can also help you in learning how to structure your writing before you even start writing.
For example, if you are given the task of writing an essay on Will AI take my job? You can ask ChatGPT to help you with its structure:
6. Use ChatGPT to enhance existing copy
Let’s take this problematic paragraph:
A greenhouse is a glass building used to grow plants. A greenhouse has transparent glass that allows the sunlight to pass through, but does not allow the heat inside to escape. The same affect occurs on the earth. The suns radiation passes through the atmosphere to heat the earth’s surface. When heated, the earth’s surface produces infrared radiation, which has a longer wavelength than that of sunlight. This infrared radiation rises into the atmosphere where gases, such as carbon dioxide, prevents the infrared radiation from escaping into space. The concentrations of these gases which are called greenhouse gases, control how much infrared radiation escapes. The retained radiation heats the earth’s atmosphere, thus keeping the planet warm.
There are obvious spelling, grammatical, and phrasing mistakes.
Now let’s ask ChatGPT to correct it while giving it prompts to enhance the argument the above paragraph is trying to make:
The AI gives the above paragraph a more concise structure. Several spelling and grammatical mistakes, such as tense consistency and sentence structure were fixed. It also improves the flow of the paragraph.
ChatGPT pushes the writer to change their writing style and helps expand on their thinking process.
Conclusion
ChatGPT can help you improve your writing. You can learn how to use this language model efficiently to generate ideas, check spelling and grammar, and even practice writing in different styles. It can also help you save time — anything that can speed up the writing process is a valuable tool. ChatGPT can act as your writing assistance, and help you communicate your ideas more effectively. However, just remember that ChatGPT is an LLM, and it doesn’t actually know anything — try to keep a reasonable balance between accepting ChatGPT’s suggestions and giving it too much control.
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