Practical Prompting for Work

Practical Prompting for Work

by Ravi Vale

A practical guide to writing prompts and context systems for real professional work across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and role-specific workflows. Covers foundational techniques, advanced strategies, evaluation, safety, and applied playbooks.

Intermediate7 hours220 pagesMarch 3, 20261st Edition
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Table of Contents

12 chapters

I

Foundation

How AI thinks and the science of great prompts

  1. 1

    Anatomy of a Great Prompt

    4 sections35 min
  2. 2

    The XML Toolkit

    4 sections30 min
  3. 3

    Chain-of-Thought & Reasoning

    4 sections35 min
II

Applied Practice

Advanced techniques and model-specific strategies

  1. 4

    Few-Shot Learning

    4 sections34 min
  2. 5

    Prompt Chaining & Workflows

    4 sections35 min
  3. 6

    System Prompts & Personas

    4 sections34 min
III

Applied

Professional workflows and domain playbooks

  1. 7

    Context Engineering

    4 sections36 min
  2. 8

    Model-Specific Techniques

    5 sections38 min
  3. 9

    Prompt Security & Safety

    4 sections35 min
IV

Frontier

Context engineering, agents, and security

  1. 10

    Evaluation & Testing

    4 sections35 min
  2. 11

    Domain Playbooks: Law & Medicine

    4 sections32 min