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Rewrite for an audience prompt template
Rewriting for a new audience usually loses something quietly: a qualifier, a number, or the one caveat that made the claim defensible. This template makes the losses visible.
The prompt
Rewrite the draft below for a different reader. Keep the substance exactly; change only how it is said. New reader: [WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY CARE ABOUT, WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW] Format: [LENGTH AND MEDIUM] Rules: - Every number, date, name and caveat survives unchanged. - If a point cannot be made at this reader's level without losing accuracy, keep it and explain it. Do not drop it silently. - Reorder freely. This reader's first question probably is not the original's opening. - Cut jargon that is jargon to them, keep jargon that is vocabulary to them. After the rewrite, list: - Anything you cut, and why. - Anything you simplified in a way that loses precision. - Any claim that now needs a source it did not need before.
Why this prompt is written this way
The audit list after the rewrite is the point of the template. Without it, the lost qualifier is invisible, and you find out about it when someone challenges the claim.
Explicit permission to reorder matters because most rewrites keep the original structure, which was built for the original reader and is usually wrong for the new one.
Distinguishing jargon-to-them from vocabulary-to-them prevents the over-simplification that makes expert readers stop trusting a document.
Getting more out of it
- Describe what the reader already knows, not just their job title. It is the variable that changes the output most.
- Read the cut list before the rewrite. It tells you whether the rewrite is honest.
- Include the original source alongside the draft so facts can be checked rather than preserved on faith.
- Rewrite in one step, not in a chain. Each pass through an assistant drifts a little further from the facts.
Works best with
1 to 4 tabs open at once. Send them together rather than one at a time, so the assistant can compare them instead of forgetting the first by the time it reads the last. Sending tabs to Claude explains the options.
Common questions
- Can I use this to make something shorter as well as simpler?
- Yes, but state the target length in the format line. Without one, the rewrite usually lands close to the original length.
- Will it keep my voice?
- Partly. If voice matters, paste two paragraphs you consider representative and say to match them, rather than describing the tone in adjectives.
- What if the new audience genuinely should not see some of it?
- Cut that material before you send the draft. An instruction to omit is not a security control, and the assistant still receives everything you paste.
Other templates
- Draft from your sourcesA prompt template that writes a first draft from the pages you have open while keeping every claim traceable to its source.
- Explain it to a beginnerA prompt template that explains the pages you have open in plain language, without dropping the details that actually matter.
- Write a decision memoTurn the pages you have open into a one-page decision memo with options, trade-offs, a recommendation and the open questions.
Stop pasting tabs one by one
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