Proofread and Polish Any Piece of Writing

This prompt cleans up grammar, spelling, punctuation, and awkward phrasing while explicitly preserving your voice, sentence-structure choices, and meaning — the line most AI editors cross when they 'improve' your writing into something blander. The required change log after the revision lets you see exactly what was touched, so you can accept or reject edits rather than blindly trusting a rewrite. Use it on anything you've drafted yourself and want tightened without losing your fingerprints.

What you can expect back

Polished version:

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly — I really appreciate it. We were hoping to finalize the contract by Friday, but there are a few things in Section 3 that don't sit right with us, and we wanted to flag them before signing anything.

Changes made:
- "so quick" -> "so quickly": adverb needed to modify "getting back."
- "i" -> "I": capitalized the first-person pronoun.
- "We was" -> "We were": subject-verb agreement.
- "friday" -> "Friday": days of the week are capitalized.
- "theres" -> "there are": added apostrophe context and fixed agreement with the plural "things."
- "dont" -> "don't": missing apostrophe.
- Added a comma before "but" and "and" to separate independent clauses.
- "section 3" -> "Section 3": capitalized as a named document reference.

Illustrative example — your results will vary by tool and inputs.

Get sharper results

• 01Tell the model your dialect (US, UK, AU, Canadian) so it doesn't 'correct' colour to color or vice versa against your intent.
• 02If your text is intentionally informal or uses fragments for style, say so explicitly — otherwise the model may flag deliberate choices as errors.
• 03For longer documents, ask it to process in sections and keep the change log per section so you can review without scrolling past a wall of edits.
• 04Ask it to mark any edit it's unsure about as 'optional' so you can distinguish hard errors from stylistic suggestions.
• 05If you want a light touch, add 'fix only objective errors, leave anything stylistic alone' — this stops the model from smoothing out your voice.

Adapt it for your case