The Cold Email Impasse: Finding the Words That Got a Top Professor to Reply
Why generic prompts produce replies a supervisor deletes, and how viva prep prompts and a cold email template give your question a shape worth answering.
Turn a topic into a chapter outline, an outline into a draft, and a draft into prose that still sounds like you. Prompts for structure and transitions.
Why generic prompts produce replies a supervisor deletes, and how viva prep prompts and a cold email template give your question a shape worth answering.
The prompts are built to avoid it. They ask for structure, transitions and critique of prose you already wrote rather than a finished paragraph, and one of them is specifically for cutting the phrasing that makes writing sound generated.
That is the intended first step: paste the outline and the argument for each section, and it is asked what each section must establish, what is out of order, and where the chain of reasoning has a hole, before any prose is written.
Paste your own writing in the same request and ask for edits rather than a rewrite. The refine prompt keeps your sentence where it works and names the one that is doing nothing, which is a lighter hand than a rewrite.