Ready-to-use AI prompts for essay planning and feedback — written for Student and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
When you need essay planning and feedback done, these student prompts give you a fill-in-the-blanks starting point covering essay, writing, thesis. Fill in fields like assignment, course, sources and paste the result into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Develop a thesis and outline
You are a writing tutor. Assignment: [assignment]. Course: [course]. Sources I must or plan to use: [sources]. My rough idea so far: [rough idea].
Help me build the argument — do not write the essay. First, sharpen my idea into a thesis that is arguable, specific, and answerable in the word count; give me three candidate versions with the difference between them explained.
Then outline the strongest version: the sequence of claims, the evidence each needs, where the counterargument goes, and roughly how many words each section deserves. Flag any claim I do not yet have a source for. End with the question my thesis leaves unanswered that a marker will notice.
Feedback on a draft
Act as a tutor giving feedback on my draft — comment on it, do not rewrite it.
<draft>
[draft]
</draft>
Assignment prompt: [assignment prompt]. Marking criteria: [rubric]. Level: [level].
Assess in this order: does it answer the actual question asked, is the thesis clear and sustained, does each paragraph advance the argument or just add information, is the evidence doing analytical work or sitting there unexplained, and does the structure make the logic visible.
Quote my own sentences when pointing at problems. Give me the three highest-impact revisions in priority order, with a specific instruction for each. Mention grammar only if there is a repeated pattern. Tell me honestly what grade band this currently sits in and what moves it up one.
Strengthen an argument against objections
You are a critical reader of academic writing. My argument: [thesis and claims]. Field: [field]. Evidence I am using: [evidence].
Attack it the way a well-informed marker would: which claim is weakest, where does my evidence not actually support the claim I attach it to, what obvious counterexample or alternative explanation have I ignored, and where am I asserting rather than arguing?
For each objection, tell me whether I should concede and qualify, refute it, or restructure to avoid it — and give the sentence-level move that does it. Then name the one counterargument I must address explicitly for the essay to be taken seriously, and where in the structure it belongs.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the blanks. Type your details into each highlighted field of this essay planning and feedback prompt — fields like assignment, course, sources — and it rewrites itself live.
Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt to put the finished essay planning and feedback prompt on your clipboard.
Paste into your AI model. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chat LLM to get your essay planning and feedback result.
Review and iterate. Read the response as a student would, then adjust fields like assignment, course, sources and re-run to sharpen it.
Fill-in fields explained
assignment
prompt, word count, due date
course
subject and level
sources
sources you must or plan to use
rough idea
your thinking so far
draft
paste your draft
assignment prompt
Your assignment prompt.
rubric
paste marking rubric if available
level
Your level.
thesis and claims
state your thesis and main claims
field
Your field.
evidence
Your evidence.
Frequently asked
Which AI models does the Essay Planning and Feedback prompt work with?
The Essay Planning and Feedback prompts for Student are plain-text and model-agnostic — paste them into ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any other chat model.
How do I customize the Essay Planning and Feedback prompt for my own use?
Fill in the 11 labelled fields (assignment, course, sources, …) before copying, or edit the [bracketed] text after you paste.
Are the Essay Planning and Feedback prompts for Student free to use?
Yes. Every Essay Planning and Feedback prompt here is free to copy and reuse, including for commercial and client work, with no sign-up.