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About a hundred prompt frameworks are in circulation. Six have an author you can check.
The rest are conventions with an acronym, and several have two or three incompatible expansions live at the same time. These write-ups sort them by provenance, so you can tell which ones you can safely cite.
5 articles · Communication structures
BLUF: bottom line up front, and the two words to ban instead
Tier B · 3 min · Communication structuresPut the answer first. Then remove the throat-clearing that made you want to hide it.
Minto Pyramid: build bottom-up, communicate top-down
Tier B · 3 min · Communication structuresThe structure underneath SCQA, PREP, and most good answers.
PREP: the four-beat answer for when you have to say it out loud
Tier B · 3 min · Communication structuresPoint, Reason, Example, Point. Built for spoken answers, not documents.
SCQA: the 1960s consulting structure that works better on prompts than most 2024 frameworks
Tier B · 3 min · Communication structuresSituation, Complication, Question, Answer. Nobody disputes what these mean.
STAR: the behavioural-interview format that doubles as a prompt structure
Tier B · 3 min · Communication structuresSituation, Task, Action, Result. Built to prevent vague self-assessment.