Drafting, editing, tone and plain-language rewrites. 7 reviewed skills for writing.
Whether you are drafting, editing or rewriting for plain language, the same problems come back: unclear structure, the wrong tone, sentences that run too long. The prompts and skills in this category help you shape a draft, tighten it and match a voice. Give the tool your real material and a clear audience, and ask for changes you can see, so you stay the author.
Use when an engineer-to-engineer update needs to reach managers, product leads or executives: rewrites it in plain cause-and-effect language, sized for the channel (chat post, email, standup line, ticket comment, talking points).
Standing rules for writing and revising technical or business prose so it is specific, plain and honest about certainty. Use when drafting or editing documentation, reports, specs, release notes or explanations.
A way of working for reviewing copy for exclusionary wording, blaming tone and clarity barriers. Use when polishing product text, emails, help articles or announcements.
Edits drafts so they read as if a person wrote them: cuts filler, stock phrases and mechanical rhythm while keeping every fact. Use when writing or revising any prose meant for human readers.
Use when polishing or reformatting a paper written in LaTeX: improves academic prose and checks submission formatting while keeping every command, equation, label and citation intact.
Rules for writing procedures, runbooks, help articles and error messages that are short, literal and easy to translate. Use when writing or editing technical instructions, not marketing copy.
Use when editing a draft that reads as machine-written: removes stock phrases, inflated claims and formulaic structure while keeping the meaning and matching the writer's own voice.
