Prompts
Rewrite an official paragraph in plain language
Gives you a message you can send to a community member, with every number and deadline kept, and a one line explanation of each word that had to stay technical.
What may go into it: Public or invented material only
The prompt
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below is one paragraph of published official text: a regulation, a form instruction or a donor condition. Rewrite it in plain words in the language named above, as a message I can send to a community member as it stands. Rules: 1. Short sentences, everyday words. Write so that a fourteen year old can read it once and know what to do. 2. Keep every number, date, deadline, amount, office name and place name exactly as written, including mixed digits (١٢٣ alongside 123). 3. Add nothing. No advice, no reassurance, no step and no office that is not in the paragraph. If the paragraph does not say who to contact or what happens next, write that it does not say. 4. Do not soften an obligation. If something is required, the message says it is required, and if there is a consequence for missing it, the message says that too. 5. Keep any word that has a legal effect and cannot be swapped for an everyday word. Then explain it once, in one line. Give me, in this order: A. The message, ready to send, at most eight short sentences. B. What the reader must do, and by when, one line each. C. Every word you had to keep technical, with a one line explanation of each. D. Anything in the paragraph you could not make plain without changing its meaning. The paragraph: [PASTE THE PUBLISHED PARAGRAPH]
Opens a new chat in that tool with this prompt already typed in. Fill in every box first, and read the line at the top about what may go into it.
10 minutes · Gives you a message to send · Works on a phone · How much to paste at once: Paste one paragraph at a time, and if section A runs longer than eight sentences or sections C and D never arrive, the answer drifted or was cut off, so paste less and ask again.
Read the answer against the checks below before you use it in anything that leaves your organisation.
What to fill in
- [ANSWER LANGUAGE]: the language the community member reads, for example Arabic or Kurdish Sorani.
- [PASTE THE PUBLISHED PARAGRAPH]: one paragraph of the published text, copied exactly, with nothing summarised.
Before you trust the answer
- Read section A against the paragraph for obligations. A plain version that loses a "must" is worse than the hard original.
- Check every number, date and amount in section A against the paragraph yourself.
- Section D is where the risk sits. If it is empty and the paragraph was dense, ask again for section D on its own.
When it goes wrong
It turns a rewrite into friendly advice and invents the helpful part: an office to visit, a document to bring or an extra week that is nowhere in the paragraph, and the reader acts on it.
Tools this is written for
Written 2026-09-01Nobody has run this prompt in this language yet, so read the answer twice.
- Never for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq
- Never for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq
- Never for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq
Where to go next
- The task this belongs toTranslation into and out of local languages
- Staying safeClassify the material first
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