Prompt Engineering Academy · Intermediate
② The Working Prompter
The working kit for daily professional use: roles that carry standards instead of costumes, examples that teach the exact pattern, structure that keeps long prompts obedient, reasoning moves that upgrade the thinking, and a voice that stays yours across every medium. 5 sections · quizzes with fresh questions every attempt · 1 capstone.
What you'll be able to do
- Write role assignments that carry standards, audience and stakes, not just a job title.
- Choose one to three examples that teach the pattern, and stop them contradicting your instructions.
- Structure long prompts so instructions and pasted material never bleed into each other.
- Ask for plans, decomposition and self-checks where they help, and skip them where they're noise.
- Control tone with concrete rules and a writing sample, and keep one voice across mediums.
Grading: Section quizzes 60% · final test 40% · capstone graded by rubric (self-assessed)
Prerequisites: Course 1 (Prompt Foundations) or the equivalent: you can already write an ask with task, audience, constraints and output shape.
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Start / continue →Sections
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Roles That Actually WorkWhy 'act as an expert' underdelivers, and the role that actually changes the work: standards, audience, stakes, and opinions.
2
Showing Beats TellingExamples are the strongest instruction you can give, if you pick the right one to three, match them to the format you want, and never let them argue with your rules.
3
Structure at ScalePast a few paragraphs a prompt becomes a document. Delimiters, labeled sections and variables keep the instructions in charge of the material, and keep the prompt maintainable.
4
Getting Better ThinkingPlans before answers, big tasks in pieces, self-checks against named criteria and the judgment to skip the ceremony when the task doesn't need it.
5
Style and Voice ControlAdjectives don't hold. Concrete rules, a short blacklist of tics, and one real writing sample, kept somewhere persistent. Give you a voice that survives across email, reports and chat.
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Final test + capstone
10 questions across the whole course, then the applied capstone brief.