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Aristotle's Rhetoric, Strunkified

4 points by lukebechtel 9mo ago

treetalker 9mo ago
Luke, would you mind sharing (here or on your blog) the prompt and model used to generate the text?
- lukebechtel 9mo ago
  certainly. Maybe tomorrow I'll make a post laying it out, but here's how I did it. I did this using cursor. You can use other methods[1], but I'll describe mine. 1. Grab the text contents of a style guide you like (I used Strunk, which is easily available on internet. Use whatever you like.) 2. Paste that into Cursor as a txt file. 3. Paste your target text into Cursor as another txt file. 4. In the AI Pane, switch your model to Gemini 3 Pro (for its intelligence + long context) 5. Prompt it thusly: """""""""""" Can you please create a paragraph-for-paragraph rewrite of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT using NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE? All the original ideas must be maintained -- we are simply trying to create a version that matches the style guide better. The paragraph ordering must be matched. Please output this in OUTPUT-FILE.txt Before doing so, I want you to create a todo list (it will be quite long) of the form: - Convert Book X Part Y - Convert Book X Part Z And so on, exhaustively covering all parts. You will have to view the entire file to do this. You must ALWAYS output a new part after the old part, never overwrite. You must always convert a part, output it, and then move on. Your flow should be: (1) view NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE (if they are no longer visible) (2) view part of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT you're converting (3) output converted part into OUTPUT-FILE.txt (4) check it off on your todo list (5) begin next part """""""""""" [1] Though I used cursor, you should be able to script the whole "paragraph for paragraph" thing if you wanted to, which I might do later. (If you do this, let me know!)
  - treetalker 9mo ago
    Thanks for responding so fast and thoroughly! I'll give it a whirl and either post here or else email you from your profile if the reply window times out.

4 points by lukebechtel 9mo ago

treetalker 9mo ago

Luke, would you mind sharing (here or on your blog) the prompt and model used to generate the text?

lukebechtel 9mo ago
certainly. Maybe tomorrow I'll make a post laying it out, but here's how I did it. I did this using cursor. You can use other methods[1], but I'll describe mine. 1. Grab the text contents of a style guide you like (I used Strunk, which is easily available on internet. Use whatever you like.) 2. Paste that into Cursor as a txt file. 3. Paste your target text into Cursor as another txt file. 4. In the AI Pane, switch your model to Gemini 3 Pro (for its intelligence + long context) 5. Prompt it thusly: """""""""""" Can you please create a paragraph-for-paragraph rewrite of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT using NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE? All the original ideas must be maintained -- we are simply trying to create a version that matches the style guide better. The paragraph ordering must be matched. Please output this in OUTPUT-FILE.txt Before doing so, I want you to create a todo list (it will be quite long) of the form: - Convert Book X Part Y - Convert Book X Part Z And so on, exhaustively covering all parts. You will have to view the entire file to do this. You must ALWAYS output a new part after the old part, never overwrite. You must always convert a part, output it, and then move on. Your flow should be: (1) view NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE (if they are no longer visible) (2) view part of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT you're converting (3) output converted part into OUTPUT-FILE.txt (4) check it off on your todo list (5) begin next part """""""""""" [1] Though I used cursor, you should be able to script the whole "paragraph for paragraph" thing if you wanted to, which I might do later. (If you do this, let me know!)
- treetalker 9mo ago
  Thanks for responding so fast and thoroughly! I'll give it a whirl and either post here or else email you from your profile if the reply window times out.