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  • A2
  • Asking well
  • Speak
  • 5 min

Show an example

Situation

The situation

A real example beats a long description of the style.

You run a delicatessen in Bordeaux. Your product descriptions have a house style: short, warm, with the origin and a serving idea. You are adding a lavender honey from the Drôme, in a 250 g jar.

Idea 1 of 3

Showing beats explaining

“Warm but professional” is still vague. A real example of what you like shows the tone, the length and the structure in one go.

Idea 2 of 3

Paste, then ask for the same style

Paste a description you like, then ask for the new one “in the same style”. The AI copies the form of the example, not its content.

Idea 3 of 3

The facts come from you

The example gives the form. The facts about the new product (origin, weight, producer) come from you: otherwise, the AI makes them up.

Example

Before and after

Avoid

Write a nice product description for some honey.

Better

Here is a description I like: [fig jam description]. In the same style, write the one for our lavender honey, harvested in the Drôme, 250 g jar.

Why? The example shows the style and the facts come from you. The AI has no tone to guess and no origin to invent.

Question 1 of 2

To get your shop’s style, what do you do?

To get your shop’s style, what do you do?
See the answer

You paste a description you like and ask for the same style. An example shows the tone, the length and the structure in one go.

Question 2 of 2

The example gives the form. Where do the new product’s origin and weight come from?

The example gives the form. Where do the new product’s origin and weight come from?
See the answer

From you You are the only reliable source on your product. Without your facts, the AI makes them up.

Exercise

Your turn

Complete the request: keep the example and ask for the lavender honey description in the same style, with its facts.

Ctrl + Enter to check your request.

Checklist

  • Keep an example description, to do
  • Ask for the same style, to do
  • Name the new product, to do
  • Give its facts: origin or producer, to do

End of the lesson

Lesson complete

Key point

For a style, show an example. For the facts, give them yourself.