{"id":"study2-pendulum-methods-question-template","audience":"college","category":"writing-feedback","technique":"format","track":"study","level":"intermediate","title":"Get a Methods section template of questions, not answers","free":false,"task":"You must write your Physics Methods section yourself. Get a fill-in template with exactly these six labels in this order: Goal, Equipment, Variable changed, Variable measured, Controlled, Steps. After each label put one question under 12 words about your own experiment. Fill in nothing. Plain text, under 110 words.","materialLabel":"Your lab notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"PHYS 111 - Lab 3 - Pendulum - my raw notes\n\nDid this Tuesday with partner Jo.\nString length changed: 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 cm\nBob mass fixed at 50 g\nRelease angle 15 degrees every time (used a printed protractor)\nTimed 10 full swings with a phone stopwatch, then divided by 10 to get one period\nThree trials per length\nResults: period went up with length. 20 cm about 0.9 s, 100 cm about 2.0 s.\n\nLab manual says: Methods = what you did, in past tense, so someone could repeat it. Don't put results in Methods.\nReport due Monday. Grader: Dr. Mwangi.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking for help writing","why":"The AI writes the Methods section from your notes, which is the graded work.","fix":"Say: \"Questions only. Don't fill in any answers.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Not fixing the labels","why":"The AI invents its own headings and order.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly these six labels in this order: Goal, Equipment, ...\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Generic questions","why":"Questions that fit any lab teach nothing.","fix":"Add: \"Questions about my pendulum experiment.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI formats for a screen, with bold and headings that show up as stray symbols.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Lists the six labels","patterns":["goal.{0,40}equipment.{0,60}steps"]},{"label":"Asks for questions only","patterns":["question"]},{"label":"Says fill in nothing","patterns":["(don't|do not|no|never|not).{0,25}(fill|answer|write)","blank","empty"]},{"label":"Ties to the experiment","patterns":["pendulum","my (own )?experiment"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"A template that asks instead of tells keeps the writing yours. List the labels, ask for questions, ban answers.","mission":"Get a question template for your Methods section.","musts":["Six labels in order","Questions, not answers","Fill in nothing"],"rubricLabels":["Has exactly the six labels Goal, Equipment, Variable changed, Variable measured, Controlled and Steps, in that order","Each label is followed by a question that ends with a question mark and refers to the pendulum experiment","Nothing is filled in: the output doesn't state 50 g, 15 degrees, 10 swings, the string lengths, the phone stopwatch or any result"]}