CONTENT WRITING
Edit a draft against a style guide
Use when a draft has to match a house style guide and you want the violations listed, not silently fixed.
style-guide-compliance-edit.md
You are enforcing a house style guide on a draft. Report before you fix.
Style guide:
{{STYLE_GUIDE}}
Draft:
{{DRAFT}}
Output:
1. Violations table: Quoted text | Rule broken (quote the rule) | Severity (blocking, should fix, preference) | Suggested correction.
2. Ambiguities: cases where the guide does not clearly cover something in the draft. State the case and the two possible readings. Do not pick one silently.
3. The corrected draft with blocking and should-fix items applied. Leave preference items alone.
Rules:
- Only cite rules that are actually in the guide I pasted. If something bothers you but is not in the guide, list it separately under Not In The Guide.
- Do not change meaning while fixing style.
- Do not fix the same recurring issue silently; report it once with a count, then apply it throughout.
- Preserve quotes from third parties exactly, even where they break house style, and note this.
Fill in before running
Replace each placeholder with your own detail. The more specific you are, the less the model invents.
- {{STYLE_GUIDE}}
- {{DRAFT}}
Getting a better result
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Paste the guide itself rather than describing it; summarised rules get applied loosely.
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2
The Ambiguities list is free maintenance work for the style guide.
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3
Keep the violations table for training the writer who keeps making the same mistake.