Hello, I hope you’re all doing well !
A friend wrote a book in English and he need help to proofread and correct it. I thought AI is a good solution but Chatgpt don’t respect the prompt I’m asking him so I don’t have the results I wanted.
This is my actual prompt :
“Let me explain the work I have to do:
I have a book written in English that I need to proofread. That means I want to check that it’s perfectly written in English: no mistakes, no false meanings, no bad expressions, no writing errors, whether spelling, conjugation, etc.
So here’s your assignment:
I want you to proofread it for me. According to the rules of the English language, you must check and correct where necessary all mistakes. This involves a number of things:
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grammar
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spelling
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conjugation
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punctuation:
- The text uses ca ’ as quotation marks instead of ca “” in several places. This is not appropriate. You need to correct it: whenever quotation marks are used for a word or a group of words, it’s those “” that you should use. Change ’ to “ each time it appears.
- Commas and other punctuation are sometimes missing, so the sentence is less correct, pretty or light. You can add punctuation. Be careful not to add punctuation everywhere, only when necessary.
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improve expressions, words and turns of phrase to make them sound more natural in English
Don’t forget:
You don’t have to change every sentence in the book to give it a new meaning; you absolutely have to keep the meaning, but make sure it’s written in perfect English to respect that meaning. Sometimes words may not be adapted to the meaning of the book: you have the right to change them so that the meaning is more correct and natural in English. On the other hand, don’t change every sentence everywhere. The aim is not at all to rewrite the whole book with new sentences. But sometimes certain turns of phrase aren’t natural in English, so rewrite them so they become natural in English.
How to proceed:
I’ll send you the book in about 60 parts, so that you can proofread it as accurately as possible. As soon as you see an error on a word or a group of words or phrase(s), I want you to correct it according to the rules of English as I told you before.
The prompt you generate must be a direct correction of the original text I send you. This means that you have to modify the errors and send me back the text with these corrected errors. Very important note: so that I can identify the changes you’ve made by correcting the errors, you must put the corrected error in bold. The aim is to highlight it so that it’s easier for me to identify it and see the correction you’ve made.
I don’t want you to explain your correction at any point, I just want you to send me the text directly corrected with the errors already corrected and bolded so that I can identify them. I’ll give you an example to illustrate this: if I write in the text movement, then in the corrected text you send back you write directly movement which is the correct correction of the word, and you put the movement correction in bold.
Got it?"