Output Refinement & Presentation

Estimated time: 3 minutes

Compare before you commit. Treating a first draft as final skips a step — comparing candidate responses, or reviewing a draft against the original criteria, catches issues before they ship (this is the same self-correction pattern from Module 2's task decomposition).

Editing is a distinct skill from generating. Tightening prose, correcting tone drift, and fixing structural issues are their own pass — not something that should happen automatically just because the first draft exists.

Choosing the right container for the output matters as much as the content itself:

Output need Container
Quick, disposable answer Inline chat text
Data meant for further processing Structured data (table, JSON)
Something the user will reuse, edit, or hand off Artifact

This ties directly back to Module 1's feature-selection judgment — an Artifact earns its place when the output has a life beyond this one conversation, not by default.

Organizing multi-part output means sequencing and formatting it for the reader's benefit, not just dumping content in the order it was generated.