Prompt Engineering
Five lessons · frameworks, library, real work
You have used Copilot. This path is about closing the gap systematically, not accidentally.
Lessons
- 01 Why Most Prompts Fail
Three failure modes, missing goal, context, and expectation, and the smart-new-hire test.
- 02 Three Frameworks That Go Beyond GCSE
Role+Task+Format, chain of thought, and constraints with variations.
- 03 Advanced techniques for real work
Persona seeding, examples, negative constraints, sharp refinements, meta-prompts.
- 04 Building and Using a Personal Prompt Library
Capture, organize, and maintain prompts that transfer, by use case or framework.
- 05 Prompting as a Professional Skill
Fluency habits, deliberate practice, and using Copilot as a mirror for unclear thinking.
Five lessons build on each other. By the end you will have a personal framework, reusable patterns, and the instinct to diagnose what went wrong when an output misses.
Begin Lesson 1A bad prompt is usually a communication problem. Communication is something you already know how to fix.
Lessons read in approximately 20–30 minutes each. Practice tasks (especially building your library in Lesson 4) take longer and are the point.
Recommended: Copilot Basics (GCSE) or Getting Started prompting before or alongside this path.