# My style prompt (May 2025) #prompting Rewrite {selection} so that every surface feature conforms to the detailed [[style description]]. Obligations • Preserve meaning, logical order, citations, and references. • Keep existing paragraph breaks unless the [[style description]] dictates otherwise. • [[Use British]] spelling only. • Add nothing, omit nothing, paraphrase nothing—change form only. • **Output the rewritten text alone. No commentary, headings, quotation marks, or trailing newline.** ─── [[Style description]] ─── Vocabulary • medium-High lexical density; nouns comfortably outnumber verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. • Prefers abstract nouns ending -tion, -ity, -ness, -ism, -ment and prefixes meta-, inter-, auto-, non-. • Recurring collocations: “in this paper”, “generative AI”, “in the sense”, “on the other hand”, “we argue that”. • Chooses “argue”, “plausible”, “illustrate” over near-synonyms like “contend”, “likely”, “demonstrate”. Morphology and inflection • Predominantly present tense; past and present-perfect for evidence or background. • Mainly active voice; passive for impersonal claims. • Regular modal verbs (can, must, may, should, might, could) for nuanced commitment. • Inclusive “we”; never first-person singular; “one” avoided. Syntax • Long, often complex or compound sentences (20–40 words typical). • Frequent fronted adjuncts (“In this section, we …”). • Subordinators (because, although, while, since, if, when) knit arguments. • Parenthetical commas mark qualifications; occasional em-dashes for emphasis. Punctuation • Commas most frequent, full stops next; occasional semicolons and colons. • Em dashes sparingly for aside (“—not as an agent—”); single space after punctuation. • Ellipses only inside quotations. Cohesion devices • Logical connectives (however, therefore, thus, nevertheless, indeed). • Demonstratives (“[[this approach]]”, “that idea”) and orderly enumerators (“first”, “second”, “finally”). Paragraph architecture • Medium paragraphs (≈ 5–6 sentences). • Openings often definitions, direct claims, or citations; closings summarise or transition. Tone and register • Analytic, straightforward language (never pretentious, never using a pompous word/phrase when there is a straightforward word/phrase available) • Contractions virtually absent. • Steady hedging (seems, appears, might, arguably) balanced by measured boosters (clearly, certainly, indeed). • Inclusive, collegial stance (“we argue”, “let us consider”). • Neutral emotional valence; jargon used when precise. • Humour, irony, idioms, clichés rare. • Predominantly hypotactic rhythm; short paratactic sentences used sparingly for emphasis. Capitalisation and numbering • Standard sentence-initial capitals; sentence-case headings; Title Case for [[main title]]. • Numbers spelled out up to ten, digits from 11; years unspaced; no thousands separator. • Author–year parenthetical citations (e.g. “Helliwell 2023”). Other recurrent features • Parentheses for clarification or citations; footnotes rare. • Occasional imperatives in thought experiments (“Consider the following …”). • Characteristic connective phrase “in relation to” at subsection transitions. ─── Text to rewrite ─── {selection | raw} # My style prompt (May 2025) #prompting Rewrite {selection} so that every surface feature conforms to the detailed [[style description]]. Obligations • Preserve meaning, logical order, citations, and references. • Keep existing paragraph breaks unless the [[style description]] dictates otherwise. • [[Use British]] spelling only. • Add nothing, omit nothing, paraphrase nothing—change form only. • **Output the rewritten text alone. No commentary, headings, quotation marks, or trailing newline.** ─── [[Style description]] ─── Vocabulary • medium-High lexical density; nouns comfortably outnumber verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. • Prefers abstract nouns ending -tion, -ity, -ness, -ism, -ment and prefixes meta-, inter-, auto-, non-. • Recurring collocations: “in this paper”, “generative AI”, “in the sense”, “on the other hand”, “we argue that”. • Chooses “argue”, “plausible”, “illustrate” over near-synonyms like “contend”, “likely”, “demonstrate”. Morphology and inflection • Predominantly present tense; past and present-perfect for evidence or background. • Mainly active voice; passive for impersonal claims. • Regular modal verbs (can, must, may, should, might, could) for nuanced commitment. • Inclusive “we”; never first-person singular; “one” avoided. Syntax • Long, often complex or compound sentences (20–40 words typical). • Frequent fronted adjuncts (“In this section, we …”). • Subordinators (because, although, while, since, if, when) knit arguments. • Parenthetical commas mark qualifications; occasional em-dashes for emphasis. Punctuation • Commas most frequent, full stops next; occasional semicolons and colons. • Em dashes sparingly for aside (“—not as an agent—”); single space after punctuation. • Ellipses only inside quotations. Cohesion devices • Logical connectives (however, therefore, thus, nevertheless, indeed). • Demonstratives (“[[this approach]]”, “that idea”) and orderly enumerators (“first”, “second”, “finally”). Paragraph architecture • Medium paragraphs (≈ 5–6 sentences). • Openings often definitions, direct claims, or citations; closings summarise or transition. Tone and register • Analytic, straightforward language (never pretentious, never using a pompous word/phrase when there is a straightforward word/phrase available) • Contractions virtually absent. • Steady hedging (seems, appears, might, arguably) balanced by measured boosters (clearly, certainly, indeed). • Inclusive, collegial stance (“we argue”, “let us consider”). • Neutral emotional valence; jargon used when precise. • Humour, irony, idioms, clichés rare. • Predominantly hypotactic rhythm; short paratactic sentences used sparingly for emphasis. Capitalisation and numbering • Standard sentence-initial capitals; sentence-case headings; Title Case for [[main title]]. • Numbers spelled out up to ten, digits from 11; years unspaced; no thousands separator. • Author–year parenthetical citations (e.g. “Helliwell 2023”). Other recurrent features • Parentheses for clarification or citations; footnotes rare. • Occasional imperatives in thought experiments (“Consider the following …”). • Characteristic connective phrase “in relation to” at subsection transitions. ─── Text to rewrite ─── {selection | raw} # My style prompt (May 2025) #prompting Rewrite {selection} so that every surface feature conforms to the detailed [[style description]]. Obligations • Preserve meaning, logical order, citations, and references. • Keep existing paragraph breaks unless the [[style description]] dictates otherwise. • [[Use British]] spelling only. • Add nothing, omit nothing, paraphrase nothing—change form only. • **Output the rewritten text alone. No commentary, headings, quotation marks, or trailing newline.** ─── Style description ─── Vocabulary • medium-High lexical density; nouns comfortably outnumber verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. • Prefers abstract nouns ending -tion, -ity, -ness, -ism, -ment and prefixes meta-, inter-, auto-, non-. • Recurring collocations: “in this paper”, “generative AI”, “in the sense”, “on the other hand”, “we argue that”. • Chooses “argue”, “plausible”, “illustrate” over near-synonyms like “contend”, “likely”, “demonstrate”. Morphology and inflection • Predominantly present tense; past and present-perfect for evidence or background. • Mainly active voice; passive for impersonal claims. • Regular modal verbs (can, must, may, should, might, could) for nuanced commitment. • Inclusive “we”; never first-person singular; “one” avoided. Syntax • Long, often complex or compound sentences (20–40 words typical). • Frequent fronted adjuncts (“In this section, we …”). • Subordinators (because, although, while, since, if, when) knit arguments. • Parenthetical commas mark qualifications; occasional em-dashes for emphasis. Punctuation • Commas most frequent, full stops next; occasional semicolons and colons. • Em dashes sparingly for aside (“—not as an agent—”); single space after punctuation. • Ellipses only inside quotations. Cohesion devices • Logical connectives (however, therefore, thus, nevertheless, indeed). • Demonstratives (“this approach”, “that idea”) and orderly enumerators (“first”, “second”, “finally”). Paragraph architecture • Medium paragraphs (≈ 5–6 sentences). • Openings often definitions, direct claims, or citations; closings summarise or transition. Tone and register • Analytic, straightforward language (never pretentious, never using a pompous word/phrase when there is a straightforward word/phrase available) • Contractions virtually absent. • Steady hedging (seems, appears, might, arguably) balanced by measured boosters (clearly, certainly, indeed). • Inclusive, collegial stance (“we argue”, “let us consider”). • Neutral emotional valence; jargon used when precise. • Humour, irony, idioms, clichés rare. • Predominantly hypotactic rhythm; short paratactic sentences used sparingly for emphasis. Capitalisation and numbering • Standard sentence-initial capitals; sentence-case headings; Title Case for main title. • Numbers spelled out up to ten, digits from 11; years unspaced; no thousands separator. • Author–year parenthetical citations (e.g. “Helliwell 2023”). Other recurrent features • Parentheses for clarification or citations; footnotes rare. • Occasional imperatives in thought experiments (“Consider the following …”). • Characteristic connective phrase “in relation to” at subsection transitions. ─── Text to rewrite ─── {selection | raw}