Enhance Your Prompts for ChatGPT Effectively

Have you ever tried asking ChatGPT to write a legal or environmental text and ended up with a result that was too generic or disorganized?

The secret is to structure the prompt in Markdown, guiding the AI better to obtain clearer and more readable texts.

What are the practical examples of prompts?

Let's look at two practical examples inspired by the legal environmental world, to understand how to best use titles, bold text, and lists.

How to structure an article on environmental law?

Imagine you want to ask ChatGPT to write an informative article on legal responsibilities for industrial pollution. A simple but disorganized prompt might be: "Write an article on legal responsibilities in case of industrial pollution in Italy." The result will likely be vague and poorly structured.

With Markdown, however, you can organize it like this:

# Article Title Legal Responsibilities for Industrial Pollution: A Guide for Companies and Citizens

## Introduction Explain what is meant by industrial pollution and what the main Italian and European regulations governing it are.

## Types of Responsibilities - **Civil Responsibility**: compensation for environmental damage and victims. - **Criminal Responsibility**: penalties for willful or negligent behavior. - **Administrative Responsibility**: fines and measures from competent authorities.

## Practical Cases - Example of a company that exceeded emission limits and had to compensate for the damage. - How citizens can report a suspected case of pollution.

Why is it effective?

We have given ChatGPT a clear outline. The titles and subtitles in Markdown (H1, H2) show the structure of the article. The bold items in the bullet list highlight the three main types of responsibilities. Each point includes a brief description that guides the AI. Thus, ChatGPT knows exactly what to address in each section, producing a complete and readable text.

What is another example of an effective prompt?

Now imagine you want to create a checklist to help a company verify its compliance with environmental regulations. A generic prompt like "Write a list of environmental rules for companies" might produce a confusing text. Better to use Markdown to obtain a more precise and readable format.

Generate a **checklist** to verify the environmental compliance of a manufacturing company, including:

- **Waste Management** (separate collection, disposal, traceability) - **Emission Control** (monitoring, legal limits, plant maintenance) - **Energy Saving** (energy audit, use of renewable sources, consumption optimization) - **Staff Training** (environmental awareness courses, regulatory updates) - **Documentation** (environmental records, ISO 14001 certifications, improvement plans)

Why does it work well?

In the prompt, the word **checklist** is highlighted in bold to immediately convey to the AI that we want a list of points to check. Each main item in the list is introduced by a dash -, followed by a brief explanatory parenthesis with examples of what needs to be checked. This suggests to ChatGPT to produce an orderly and structured text.

What are the advantages of this approach?

The result will likely be a list like this: * **Waste Management** – ensure that all waste is collected, cataloged, and disposed of correctly according to current regulations. * **Emission Control** – verify that the plants are subjected to periodic monitoring and comply with the established limits. * **Energy Saving** – implement energy efficiency measures and evaluate renewable sources. * **Staff Training** – organize periodic update sessions on environmental regulations. * **Documentation** – keep records and certifications updated to ensure traceability of environmental actions.

What is the SEO and practical advantage?

This format is ideal not only for obtaining orderly texts from ChatGPT but also for publishing content that is easily readable by AI crawlers like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Anthropic. Structure, clarity, and explicit keywords improve the automatic understanding of the text.

Why is the use of Markdown important?

As you can see, using Markdown in legal and environmental prompts is not just an aesthetic issue: it is a strategy that improves the precision and readability of the content, both for the AI and for the human reader. By using titles, bold text, and lists, you can transform a generic prompt into a logical outline ready to be developed coherently and professionally.