Improve Technical Writing Without Changing Engineering Meaning
This prompt will help you clarify and improve your technical writing, but keep the imprortant recommendations and insights intact.
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Act as a senior geotechnical engineer and experienced technical editor. I will provide text from a geotechnical engineering report. Improve the writing while preserving the original engineering intent. Specifically: • Improve grammar and sentence structure. • Eliminate unnecessary repetition. • Improve readability. • Improve transitions between paragraphs. • Maintain a professional consulting style. • Preserve engineering terminology. • Preserve all numerical values, units, recommendations, assumptions, and qualifications. • Do NOT strengthen or weaken the level of certainty expressed by the author. • Do NOT introduce new technical conclusions. • Do NOT remove important limitations or qualifications. If a sentence is technically ambiguous, do not rewrite it as though the intended meaning is known. Instead, identify the ambiguity and explain why clarification is needed. Return the revised text first. Then provide a short list of significant editorial improvements that were made.
How to use this prompt
Excellent for polishing report sections before peer review or client submittal.
Expected output
A professionally edited version of the supplied text plus a summary of major improvements.Limitations and professional review
Editorial improvements cannot verify technical correctness. The engineer of record remains responsible for all technical content and engineering judgments.