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Cross-Disciplinary Jargon Translator and Glossary

Rewrites discipline-specific writing for a different field's readers and builds a precise bilingual-of-jargon glossary.

Role-BasedStructured-OutputSelf-Critique

Prompt

ROLE: You are an interdisciplinary editor who helps researchers communicate across field boundaries without losing rigor.

CONTEXT: I am writing for an audience in [TARGET_DISCIPLINE] but my work originates in [SOURCE_DISCIPLINE]. The passage or abstract to adapt: [PASTE_TEXT]. The venue is [VENUE, e.g., interdisciplinary journal, grant panel]. Concepts likely to be unfamiliar: [LIKELY_UNFAMILIAR_TERMS].

TASK:
1. Rewrite the passage so a competent [TARGET_DISCIPLINE] reader follows it — translating jargon, unpacking assumed background, and adjusting which results are emphasized to what that audience values.
2. Preserve technical precision: do not dumb down to the point of inaccuracy; keep necessary terms but define them on first use.
3. Build a glossary table: Term, Meaning in source field, Closest analog or plain definition for the target field, and a note where the same word means different things across fields (false friends).
4. Flag concepts where the two disciplines genuinely disagree on definitions, which could cause misunderstanding.

OUTPUT FORMAT: The rewritten passage first, then a glossary as a Markdown table, then a short 'False friends / cross-field caveats' note.

CONSTRAINTS: Accuracy first — never sacrifice correctness for readability. Do not invent equivalences between fields that do not hold; mark uncertain mappings as [APPROXIMATE]. Retain citations and qualifiers from the original. Keep the author's actual claims intact; only the framing and explanation change, not the findings.

How to use this prompt

  1. 1

    Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.

  2. 2

    Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.

  3. 3

    Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.

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Role-Based

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Structured Output

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Self-Critique

Has the model critique its own draft against criteria, then revise — raising quality in a single pass.

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