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Prompt Craft

• AI Editing Prompts for Four Separate Passes — Useful AI editing prompts assign one pass at a time: developmental, line, copy, or proof.
• Prompt Library for Editors: Files, Owners and Review — A prompt library for editors is a shared collection of bounded editing instructions, with named owners, required inputs, expected outputs and review records.

Editorial Workflows

• AI Editing Workflow: A Human-in-the-Loop System — A reliable AI editing workflow separates diagnosis, revision, verification, and approval.
• Editorial Workflow Process: Stages and Handoffs — An editorial workflow process moves a piece through commissioning, drafting, editing, verification, approval, production, and publication.
• Editorial Workflow Tools: A 100-Point Evaluation — Evaluate editorial workflow tools against a defined process, not a vendor feature list.

Trust & Disclosure

• AI Editorial Policy: Rules, Owners and Exceptions — An AI editorial policy should identify permitted tasks, prohibited uses, approved inputs, required human checks, disclosure decisions and who can…
• Disclose AI Use: A Practical Decision Guide — Disclose AI use when a governing policy requires it or when the tool materially shaped what the audience is being asked to trust.
• Fact-Check AI Writing With a Claim Ledger — Fact-check AI writing by extracting every verifiable claim into a ledger before polishing the prose.