{"id":"col-essay-intro-feedback","audience":"college","category":"writing-feedback","technique":"constraints","title":"Get feedback on your college essay intro without a rewrite","free":false,"task":"Your Philosophy 101 paper is due Friday, and you want to improve your intro yourself, so you want feedback, not a rewrite. You want exactly 3 numbered suggestions, under 100 words in total, each pointing to a specific sentence in your draft, with no rewritten sentences, and one of them must address what your professor's rubric requires that the intro is missing. Plain text.","materialLabel":"Your draft intro and the rubric (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"PHIL 101 - Paper 2 rubric (from the syllabus)\nIntro (20 pts): a clear thesis, a preview of the strongest counterargument you will answer, and a short roadmap of the paper.\nSources: use only the assigned readings (Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, and Mill's Utilitarianism, Ch. 2). No outside sources.\n\nMY DRAFT INTRO\n(1) Since the beginning of human history, people have wondered what it means to live a good life. (2) Many philosophers have had different opinions about this question. (3) Aristotle wrote about it a lot in the Nicomachean Ethics. (4) In this essay I will argue that Aristotle is right that happiness comes from developing virtue over time, not from pleasure. (5) This matters because a lot of people today think happiness just means feeling good all the time, which is a big mistake. (6) I will look at his idea of the mean and his idea of habit. (7) Overall, Aristotle's view is the best one.\n\nMy notes to self:\n- roommate says I should open with a Nietzsche quote to sound smart?? (prof said no outside sources though)\n- writing center appointment Thursday 3pm\n- word limit for whole paper is 1,500, I'm at 1,180","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking for \"feedback\"","why":"The AI writes a long review with praise, headings and a list of every possible fix.","fix":"Be exact: \"exactly 3 numbered suggestions.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Getting a rewrite instead","why":"The AI's instinct is to fix it for you, so it hands back new sentences, which isn't your work.","fix":"Add: \"Don't rewrite any sentences. Tell me what to change, not how to word it.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Ignoring the professor's rubric","why":"The AI gives generic writing advice and misses the one rubric item that costs you points.","fix":"Say: \"Check it against the rubric. One suggestion must cover what's missing.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Vague comments","why":"\"Make your thesis stronger\" doesn't tell you where to look.","fix":"Ask: \"Point to the sentence number for each suggestion.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands 10-20% over.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Formatting you don't need","why":"AI adds bold labels and headings that clutter a quick note to yourself.","fix":"Ask for \"plain text, no bold.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many suggestions","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,20}(suggestion|point|comment|tip)"]},{"label":"Rules out a rewrite","patterns":["(don't|do not|no|not) re.?write","not a rewrite","don't (fix|change) it for me","no new sentences"]},{"label":"Points to the rubric","patterns":["rubric","counterargument","missing"]},{"label":"Asks for specific sentences","patterns":["sentence (number|\\d)","specific sentence","which sentence","point to"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","one sentence","short"]}],"hint":"Feedback is only useful if it leaves the writing to you. Tell the AI not to rewrite, how many suggestions you want, and what rubric it should check against.","rubricLabels":["One suggestion addresses the missing preview of a counterargument (required by the rubric), for example the pleasure-based view from Mill","Contains no rewritten sentences or replacement wording for the student to paste in (quoting a few of the student's own words to point at a sentence is fine)","Each suggestion points to a specific sentence in the draft, by number or by quoting a few of its words, and no suggestion recommends outside sources (like a Nietzsche quote)"]}