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Keep conversation habits after the workshop
Use CLEAR: create, load context, evaluate, adjust, and retain responsibility.
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The CLEAR card
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Role + task + context + format = clearer output
- Create: name artifact, audience, and outcome.
- Load context: include relevant, permitted facts; mark unknowns.
- Evaluate: check facts, completeness, usability, and risk.
- Adjust: request one specific change and compare versions.
- Retain responsibility: verify and decide whether to use the result.
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Common traps
- If the answer is vague, improve the task or context—not the praise.
- If a fact is unavailable, find an authoritative source; prompting cannot create evidence.
- If information is restricted, stop or use an approved workflow.
- If revisions keep moving errors around, complete the task another way.
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Independent mastery task
Use CLEAR to draft a reminder for a community activity unrelated to the workshop. Include one deliberate unknown. Produce an audit trail with the prompt, review criteria, one revision, evidence checked, and final decision.
Success means another person can see what the model contributed, what you verified, and why the final text is fit for use.
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See how this idea shows up as a product and a company — then come back to the lesson. Skills transfer across vendors.
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Page assessment
Answer from memory. Completion is saved from this evidence, not from opening the next page.
Can you explain why a polished output is still a draft? Can you identify information that should not enter a chat? Can you stop instead of revising indefinitely? If not, revisit the matching page and retry the transfer task.
All responses are required.