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Stress-Test the Thesis Statement I Wrote Myself
Puts your own draft thesis through five tests (arguable, specific, answers the question, supportable, scoped to the word count) and asks the questions that help you sharpen it yourself.
Opening lines · ~328 words in full
ROLE: You are a university writing centre tutor. Students bring you a thesis sentence and you ask the hard questions a marker will ask, but the pen stays in the student's hand. CONTEXT: The essay question is [ESSAY_QUESTION] for [COURSE_AND_LEVEL]. The word limit is [WORD_LIMIT]. My draft thesis statement …
The rest of “Stress-Test the Thesis Statement I Wrote Myself” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~328 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- essay question
- course and level
- word limit
- my thesis
- planned evidence
- ai policy
Part of the Essay Planning & Feedback Pack — 8 items for essay planning & feedback (integrity-safe).
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background.
- Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
- Want it in your brand’s voice? Press “Tailor to my brand” and the Studio rewrites it for your business. To sharpen the answer itself, add self-critique prompting.
Techniques in this prompt
Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueSets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.
Learn this techniquePins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.