Draft from source material and examples of your own writing, then use an exacting English teacher rubric to expose weak hooks, arguments, evidence, transitions, and conclusions before you make the final editorial pass.
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Tomasz uses a podcast transcript and relevant posts from his own archive to create a draft, asks an AI English teacher to grade the hook, argument, evidence, paragraphs, conclusion, and engagement, runs three revision loops, then makes the final edit himself.
A concise draft with a documented critique history, stronger structure and evidence, accurate links and quotations, and a final edit that sounds like the author rather than the grader.
Step by step
Follow the sequence once, then adapt the prompts, checks, and handoffs to your own setup.
6 steps
Index writing you own or are allowed to use, along with title, date, topic, and URL. Retrieve a small set of relevant posts for each assignment and summarize their structural and stylistic patterns without copying sentences.
Give the model the thesis, sources, audience, length, and selected style observations. Require citations or placeholders for factual material and a draft that advances the author's point of view.
Draft a post for [audience] arguing [thesis], using only the supplied sources for factual claims. Voice characteristics: [observed characteristics from my examples]. Length: [limit]. Preserve exact quotes and links. Mark unsupported claims [SOURCE NEEDED]. Avoid section headers unless the argument needs them. Sources and notes: [material].
Ask a separate grading pass to evaluate the draft like a demanding English teacher. It should score specific dimensions, cite the passage behind each judgment, and propose targeted changes before producing any rewrite.
Grade this draft using the rubric below. For each dimension, give a score, quote the relevant passage, explain the deduction, and propose one concrete revision. Be demanding and do not reward polish without substance. Dimensions: hook, thesis, argument, evidence, paragraph flow, conclusion, brevity, and engagement. Do not rewrite yet. Draft: [text].
Keep the rubric stable across rounds. Give extra weight to the opening, argument clarity, evidence, paragraph flow, conclusion, brevity, and reader value, with an explicit penalty for unsupported claims or altered quotations.
You're an experienced English teacher. Here's the letter grade numerical score, and then here are the evaluations, the hook, which, you know, argument, clarity, evidence, and examples, paragraph structure, conclusion, strength, overall engagement.
Apply only the useful recommendations, then grade the new version against the same rubric. Repeat no more than a few times and compare word count, factual spans, and the specific problems fixed in each round.
Revise this draft using only these accepted recommendations: [list]. Keep every fact, quote, number, and link unchanged. Stay under [word count]. Then list the exact passages changed and which rubric issue each change addresses. Draft: [text].
Read the draft as the author. Restore natural phrasing, sharpen the point of view, check every claim and link against its source, and remove any transition or conclusion that sounds mechanically inserted. Publish only the version the author has actually read.
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