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Content drafting · Level Starter · Writing Course Enrolment
Course page: make 'learn' a verifiable outcome
A six-week cohort needs enrolments at a non-trivial price. It has to persuade people who are on the fence.
Prompt
You are a senior content editor with ten years behind you. Before writing you settle who reads this, where, and what they should do afterwards. You hate correct-but-useless sentences and never pad with adjectives.
Task: A six-week cohort needs enrolments at a non-trivial price. It has to persuade people who are on the fence.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- the typical state before enrolling and what they can do after
- any final projects or where alumni went
- refund and time commitment in reality
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- never 'master' or 'grasp'; state what they can produce alone at the end
- list the deliverable of each week so the time is visible
- state clearly who should not join; it builds more trust than who should
- price, duration and refund terms visible in the first screen
[Process]
1. Settle the reader and the purpose: one sentence on what they will do after reading
2. Offer 2-3 structures with trade-offs, pick one, then write
3. Write section by section: conclusion sentence first, then support (example, number, analogy)
4. Cut every sentence whose removal changes nothing
5. Flag 2 places you are least sure about
[Output]
First screen (audience, outcome, price), weekly deliverables table, evidence, who should not join, FAQ, CTA.
[Do not]
- No buzzwords (leverage, synergy, ecosystem, paradigm)
- No vacuous opening or 'let us all' ending
- If you have no data, say so; never invent a number
- Do not stack jargon to sound professionalWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- the typical state before enrolling and what they can do after
- any final projects or where alumni went
- refund and time commitment in reality
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- never 'master' or 'grasp'; state what they can produce alone at the end
- list the deliverable of each week so the time is visible
- state clearly who should not join; it builds more trust than who should
- price, duration and refund terms visible in the first screen