Prompt Engineering for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Communicating with AI (English Edition)

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Kavya Iyer

Prompt Engineering for Beginners

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ISBN: 9789376066148

A Practical Guide to Communicating with AI (English Edition)

Kavya Iyer

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English

8085 Books
01 May 2026

Artificial intelligence; Natural language & machine translation

Summary
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Two people. Same AI tool. Wildly different results.

The difference is rarely the tool. The difference is how they ask. That difference has a name. It is called prompt engineering, and it is the subject of this book.

Across ten chapters and four appendices, this practical guide takes the reader from first principles to production-grade prompt systems, with worked examples and a 90-day practice plan.

What you will learn

● Build the four blocks of a strong prompt.

● Apply five core design patterns to any task.

● Master few-shot and chain-of-thought techniques.

● Diagnose four common AI failure modes.

● Refine prompts through iterative cycles.

● Build a prompt library that compounds over time.

Who this book is for

This book is for working professionals and students who have used AI tools casually and now want to use them seriously. It is especially useful for writers, analysts, developers, designers, educators, consultants, support leads, product managers, and team leads seeking better results from AI.

Table of Contents

1. What Is a Prompt?

2. How Prompts Influence Output

3. Anatomy of a Strong Prompt

4. Prompt Design Patterns

5. Zero Shot and Few Shot Prompting

6. Step by Step Prompting

7. Iterative Prompting

8. Improving Prompt Quality

9. Troubleshooting and Best Practices

10. Building Reusable Prompt Systems

By: Kavya Iyer
Imprint: 8085 Books
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9789376066148
ISBN 10: 9376066146
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 01 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active