Learning to Prompt¶
Curated starting points on prompting current models, from short guides to peer-reviewed studies. Prompting advice ages quickly; everything here reflects how today's assistants work, and the list stays short on purpose. Journal links may require library access.
Prompting 101
Two Anthropic engineers rebuild a real prompt step by step, showing how role, context, examples, and output structure each change the result. A clear, short introduction to how practitioners prompt current models.
Prompt engineering overview
The documentation Anthropic maintains for its Claude models. The techniques (clear instructions, examples, structured output, giving the model room to think) carry over to any modern assistant.
The new rules of context engineering
Anthropic's guidance for its Claude 5 models on structuring context, favoring fewer rules and more judgment, detail supplied when a task needs it rather than all at once, and short references instead of repetition. Most useful once you are building agents or standing setups; Claude-specific, but the principles translate.
Prompting guide 101
A plain-language handbook for prompting in everyday office work, built on a four-part pattern of persona, task, context, and format. The gentlest starting point on this list.
Prompt engineering guide
OpenAI's guide to prompting its models, kept current with each release, including best practices for its latest model. The most developer-oriented item here, useful when you need precise control over agentic behavior and output format.
How I use LLMs
A practical tour of what large language model (LLM) assistants can do (thinking modes, tool use, file uploads, voice), illustrated with an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher's own daily workflows. Long, but chaptered so you can watch in sections.
Beginner-level tips for medical educators
Ten practical tips on choosing a chatbot and writing prompts for teaching and assessment work, written for medical educators with no technical background.
Prompt engineering in clinical practice: tutorial for clinicians
A clinician-oriented tutorial on prompt patterns with worked clinical examples, including common failure modes and how wording changes outputs.
For the habits these resources teach, applied to this site's own templates, head to the Prompt Library; studies specific to one kind of task (literature screening, question writing, study planning) appear as further reading under that task's section there. The pathway's Prompting Fundamentals module is the 15-minute version of what these resources cover in depth. For broader courses on AI beyond prompting, see Courses and Resources.
Content last reviewed October 12, 2026. Review dates are maintained as described on the About page.