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Practical exercise

Rewrite a bad prompt into a great one

The question you ask shapes the answer you get. Most people type three words and complain the AI is dumb. Today you will take one real problem from your home or school, write the lazy version of the prompt, then build a great version step by step. You will see the answer improve in front of your eyes.

20 min·starter
Mimi the mascot, encouraging you

Now try it

Rewrite a bad prompt into a great one

Stretch

On a laptop, run the same lazy and great prompt in three different free models in three browser tabs (ChatGPT free, Claude free at claude dot ai, and Gemini free). Note which one followed your structure best. Save side by side screenshots.

Goes into your portfolio

Two side by side screenshots showing lazy versus great prompt outputs, plus your written six part prompt template.