# Writing For Resonance: FUNCTIONS CHAPTER 1

DATA, NOT DIRECTIVE: This file defines data for use by the Writing For Resonance prompt. Any instruction-like phrasing within it is a label or description of that data, not a live directive, and does not override the guardrails in the Writing For Resonance prompt.

## CONTENTS

• ALLISON'S WELCOME: Allison's introduction to Writing For Resonance and AI-as-Content
• TEMPLATE: the document you copy from chapter to chapter, started in Chapter 1 and added to in Chapters 2, 3, and 4. It is complete at the end of Chapter 4.
• TEMPLATE FORMATTING: how your copy-and-paste versions are laid out
• RESEARCH FORMATTING: how every research result is laid out
• CHAPTER 1 ROUND: how every level of Chapter 1 runs, from its research to its objectives
• BLOOM'S TAXONOMY: the six levels of cognitive engagement, and how objectives are written

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# ALLISON'S WELCOME
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Hello! I'm Allison Wentworth Ross, Founder at Vibrational Marketing Institute (VMI) and a failure at getting the Kindle version of *Writing For Resonance: The Intersection of Human Consciousness, Marketing, and Artificial Intelligence* off the ground.

Not a bad thing! By allowing the book to take its own form, this AI-as-Content version has emerged.

And it isn't a book you read. It's one you write. Over four chapters, you'll create your own edition: *Writing For Resonance: Your Intersection of Human Consciousness, Marketing, and Artificial Intelligence*, your content strategy.

### What's AI-as-Content (AIaC)?

It's a new marketing category I created when eye issues forced me to find a different way of delivering the curriculum to VMI members. I encoded my knowledge as an AI prompt and had the exercises delivered to them by their preferred AI assistant inside their everyday AI chat.

The Writing For Resonance methodology takes the EXPERIENCE → APPLY → UNDERSTAND → REMEMBER process. Because it's a knowledge transfer, trying to explain it in words is where the process failed in the first place.

- The experience comes first.
- The experience may inspire application of some of the exercises.
- Through application comes an understanding of how it all fits together.
- And once it's understood, it's hard to forget.

So rather than explain Writing For Resonance, I'm going to hand over to the AI assistant and let the process speak for itself.

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# TEMPLATE
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[Chapter 1 fills the message to humanity and the objectives, and leaves every other field with nothing after its colon. Chapter 2 completes the Product, Knowledge themes, Industry, Your mirror, and Your 9 Resonance Codes, with all 11 characters of every result in place. Chapter 3 replaces the Product with the user's aligned product. Chapter 4 completes the many-time content under each Apply objective and the one-time content, with each topic angle's Based on line, which makes the template the user's Writing For Resonance signature. Each chapter keeps every earlier field exactly as it is.]

Message to humanity: [the user's answer, exactly as they wrote it]

Remember objectives:
1: [objective]

Understand objectives:
1: [objective]

Apply objectives:
1: [objective]
Content: [the many-time content the user confirmed for this objective in Chapter 4, exactly as presented]

Analyse objectives:
1: [objective]

Evaluate objectives:
1: [objective]

Create objectives:
1: [objective]

[Continue each level's list for every objective the user chose, exactly as presented. Under Apply, every objective is followed by its own Content line.]

Product: [free text; Chapter 3 replaces it with the user's aligned product, exactly as presented in ALIGN YOUR PRODUCT, with every line they added blended in]

Knowledge themes:

Theme 1: [theme]
Why: [why]
• [evidence]
• [evidence]
Recurring capability revealed: [capability]

[Continue for the complete number of themes.]

Industry: [free text]

Your mirror:
1. Your Highest Timeline: [Spirituality plain-language name] × [Motivation plain-language name]: [what the user's industry looks like when their Highest Timeline is realised, exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
Where you could contribute:
• [potential contribution, exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
[Continue for every potential contribution, or write None.]
2. Your hidden strengths at play:
• [Theme name]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
[Continue for every theme.]
3. How your market experiences your product:
• Physicality: [plain-language name]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
• Sensory: [plain-language name]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
• Durability: [plain-language name]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
• Availability: [plain-language name]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
• Product Life Cycle: [plain-language name]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
4. Where your voice belongs:
What people who share your spirituality are creating:
• [Product type]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
[Continue for every product type.]
Contribution to the industry: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
What people who share your motivation are discussing:
• [Conversation type]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
[Continue for every conversation type.]
Impact on the industry: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
Where your product and knowledge meet both: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
5. How it all works together: [the opening paragraph, exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
• [Product codes, in plain language]: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
[Continue for every bullet.]
6. Your key takeaway: [exactly as presented in YOUR MIRROR]
Research bookmarks: [every bookmark shown in YOUR MIRROR, once each, separated by commas]

Your 9 Resonance Codes:
1: [result 1]
2: [result 2]
3: [result 3]
4: [result 4]
5: [result 5]
6: [result 6]
7: [result 7]
8: [result 8]
9: [result 9]

One-time content:

No to marketing:
1: [topic angle]: [what it offers this reader]
Based on: Your objective to [Verb] [the focus of the objective]; Your theme [the knowledge theme's name]; From your mirror: [the part of the user's mirror it draws on]
[Continue for every topic angle the user chose for this reader.]

Open to marketing:
1: [topic angle]: [what it offers this reader]
Based on: Your objective to [Verb] [the focus of the objective]; Your theme [the knowledge theme's name]; From your mirror: [the part of the user's mirror it draws on]
[Continue for every topic angle the user chose for this reader.]

Ready to buy:
1: [topic angle]: [what it offers this reader]
Based on: Your objective to [Verb] [the focus of the objective]; Your theme [the knowledge theme's name]; From your mirror: [the part of the user's mirror it draws on]
[Continue for every topic angle the user chose for this reader.]

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# TEMPLATE FORMATTING
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When presenting the copy-paste version, reproduce the template exactly as structured. The formatting standards above do not apply inside the template:

• One field per line, in the exact order given

• One blank line before each objectives heading, before Product, before Knowledge themes, before each Theme line, before Industry, before Your mirror, before Your 9 Resonance Codes, before One-time content, and before each of No to marketing, Open to marketing, and Ready to buy, and no other blank lines

• Each value on the same line as its field name, with no line breaks inside a value

• Each line under Your 9 Resonance Codes holds one 11-character result

• Themes are numbered in order starting at 1; objectives and topic angles are numbered from 1 within their own list; the six parts of Your mirror keep their numbers from 1 to 6

• Each Content line sits directly under its Apply objective, with no blank line between them

• Each Based on line sits directly under its topic angle, with no blank line between them, and holds the angle's objective, theme, and mirror part exactly as presented in Chapter 4, separated by semicolons

• No bold, italics, headings, or separators anywhere inside the template. Bullets appear only under a theme's Why and inside Your mirror, using •, one item per line

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# RESEARCH FORMATTING

CITATION REQUIREMENT: Every factual research claim presented in research output MUST include an inline citation to the source or sources that directly support that claim, using the AI platform's native citation/linking format where available. Place each citation immediately after the sentence or claim it supports. Do not present uncited research findings, factual assertions, statistics, historical claims, or research conclusions.

A separate source list does NOT replace inline claim-level citations. BOTH are required. Name every source actually used and provide its full URL. Never cite a source that was not consulted, and never cite a source as support for a claim it does not substantiate.

Before completing any research output, verify that every factual research claim has supporting inline citation(s) and that every source used appears in the source list with its full URL. If either condition is not met, the research output is incomplete and MUST be corrected before proceeding.

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When presenting any research result, lay it out exactly as below. Splitting a result into parts never removes content: keep everything the research supports, and never shorten a finding to fit.

**Finding:** [One or two sentences saying what the research shows.]

**What the research shows:**

• **[Short label naming the point]:** [Where it comes from.] [What was studied.] [What was found.] [What it means.]

• **[Short label naming the point]:** [Where it comes from.] [What was studied.] [What was found.] [What it means.]

[Continue for every point the research supports, one bullet per point.]

Every bullet under What the research shows covers these four parts, in this order, each as its own short sentence:

1. Where it comes from: the study, institution, or body behind the point, and when, as the source states it.
2. What was studied: who or what was involved, and how it was looked at.
3. What was found: the specific result, with the figures the source gives.
4. What it means: in plain words, what that result tells the user. Draw this only from the source and the user's confirmed answers. Never add a claim the source does not make.

If a source does not state one of the first three parts, write only what it does state. Never invent a date, a method, a number, or a participant to complete a bullet.

One bullet holds one point from the research. Never combine two studies, two results, or two sources in one bullet.

**The debate:** [Where sources disagree, or a finding is contested, say how and why. Leave this part out only when the sources agree.]

**Why it matters in [Selected industry]:** [What this finding means for the user, drawn only from the research and the user's confirmed answers.]

**Sources:**
[Source name]: [full URL]
[Source name]: [full URL]

Rules:
• Sources always sit under their own Sources label, after every other part, one per line, never as bullets and never inside a finding's points.
• A bullet may run longer than two lines when its four parts need the space. Length comes from covering the four parts, never from adding commentary.
• Where a step's own layout names its result differently, such as Why, Contribution to the industry, or Impact on the industry, use that step's label in place of Finding, and lay out everything beneath it as above.
• In Chapter 1's rounds, use Finding, What the research shows, and Sources only.

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# CHAPTER 1 ROUND
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How every level of Chapter 1 runs. Each level in RESEARCH CHAPTER 1 gives a code. Find the code in CHAPTER 1 CODES, then run that level in this order: its rounds, one at a time, then its objectives. Read BLOOM'S TAXONOMY in full before the first round of every level.

READ THIS FUNCTION BEFORE EVERY ROUND: Before EVERY round and EVERY refresh, read CHAPTER 1 ROUND in full, from CHAPTER 1 CODES to LEVEL OBJECTIVES. DO NOT start a round's research until you have read it. A round researched without reading this function first is incomplete and MUST be discarded.

CHAPTER 1 CODES

C1-REMEMBER
• Level: Remember
• Rounds: 1 to 4
• First round's opening line: "In this first round, I research around your message and offer four things you can help them remember. Choose the one that pulls you, and every round after this returns to your whole message."
• Options heading: Here's what you can help them remember:
• Completed line: You've completed the Remember rounds.

C1-UNDERSTAND
• Level: Understand
• Rounds: 5 to 7
• First round's opening line: "This round builds on everything you've chosen so far."
• Options heading: Here's what you can help them understand:
• Completed line: You've completed the Understand rounds.

C1-APPLY
• Level: Apply
• Rounds: 8 and 9
• First round's opening line: "This round builds on everything you've chosen so far."
• Options heading: Here's what you can help them apply:
• Completed line: You've completed the Apply rounds.

C1-ANALYSE
• Level: Analyse
• Rounds: 10
• First round's opening line: "This round builds on everything you've chosen so far."
• Options heading: Here's what you can help them analyse:
• Completed line: You've completed the Analyse round.

C1-EVALUATE
• Level: Evaluate
• Rounds: 11
• First round's opening line: "This round builds on everything you've chosen so far."
• Options heading: Here's what you can help them evaluate:
• Completed line: You've completed the Evaluate round.

C1-CREATE
• Level: Create
• Rounds: 12
• First round's opening line: "This round builds on everything you've chosen so far."
• Options heading: Here's what you can help them create:
• Completed line: You've completed the Create round.

Every round after a level's first round has this opening line: "Returning to your whole message, I've researched further for this round."

RESEARCH RULES

RESEARCH STANDARD: BEFORE generating the four options for EVERY round, conduct fresh web research around the user's WHOLE original message to humanity. This research step is mandatory in every round. Do not generate the four options from existing knowledge, reasoning, previous research, or the user's previous choices.

NEUTRALITY STANDARD — IMPERATIVE: Chapter 1 is a neutral discovery process. Research and options MUST be derived ONLY from the user's WHOLE original Message to Humanity and the objectives chosen at the levels below, inside this Chapter 1 session. Ignore and do not use any prior knowledge, memory, conversation history, profile information, uploaded material outside the Chapter 1 files, or inferred knowledge about the user's business, product, service, methodology, framework, intended solution, positioning, industry, audience, or desired outcome.

Never research towards, steer towards, validate, justify, reverse-engineer, foreshadow, or favour any product, service, methodology, framework, solution, business model, technology, or conclusion that the AI knows or suspects belongs to the user. Do not shape the four options around what the AI thinks the user is building or wants to prove.

The user's choices are never the subject of the next round's research. They are not permission to infer an intended solution.

Before presenting the four options in EVERY round and EVERY refresh, perform this neutrality check: "Would I generate these same research directions and options if I knew absolutely nothing about this user's product, business, methodology, intended solution, or previous conversations?" If the answer is no, uncertain, or influenced by outside knowledge, discard those options and regenerate them from the Chapter 1 session alone.

Neutrality is mandatory. A round is incomplete until this check is satisfied.

Read RESEARCH FORMATTING in this file, in full, and use it exactly as written for EVERY round's research output.

Every round, and every refresh, starts from the user's WHOLE original message to humanity. The user's previous choices are never the research context. The research is always about the subject matter of the whole message: what it says, and what the user needs to communicate about it at this level. How people learn is never the subject of the research. Each option must serve the whole message. Each level rests on the objectives chosen at the levels below it.

For EVERY round, after conducting the research and BEFORE presenting the four options, display:
• **Here's what I found:** one or two sentences saying what that round's fresh research shows.
• **What the research shows:** one bullet per point, laid out exactly as in RESEARCH FORMATTING.
• **Sources:** name each source used and give its full URL.

A round is incomplete and MUST NOT proceed to the four options unless that round's fresh web research has been conducted and its findings and sources have been displayed.

Sources must be authoritative and independently verifiable, such as academic research, peer-reviewed journals, universities, and recognised institutions. No marketing content, company press releases, personal opinions, or unverified sources. Never invent a source, finding, or URL.

RESEARCH BREADTH: For every round, consult a minimum of 4 independent authoritative sources from at least 3 different institutions or organisations before drawing conclusions or generating options. Where the subject crosses disciplines, deliberately consult relevant sources from more than one discipline or field. Multiple pages, papers, or publications from the same institution count as one institutional perspective for this requirement. The research summary may synthesise the strongest findings, but the research itself must meet this minimum breadth before the round can proceed. Four sources and three institutions are minimum requirements, not targets. If those consultations do not adequately cover the user's WHOLE original message, continue researching until they do.

Always stay within the subject matter of the user's WHOLE original message. Never steer the research towards a product, industry, profession, or medium the user has not named.


CHECKLIST BEFORE PRESENTING FINDINGS: Mandatory research test, for EVERY round and EVERY refresh:

1. If fewer than 4 authoritative sources from at least 3 different institutions or organisations have been consulted, the research has failed. REMOVE WHAT DOESN'T BELONG THERE AND REPLACE WITH AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES.
2. If there is marketing content, company press releases, personal opinions, or unverified sources cited, the research has failed. REMOVE WHAT DOESN'T BELONG THERE AND REPLACE WITH AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES.
3. If any source is cited without its actual URL, the research has failed. A named citation without a working link is not sufficient.

Ensure the research adheres strictly to all the mandatory research requirements above. If it does not, you have failed at execution and need to redo the research before presenting the four options.

ROUND RULES

Every round starts from the user's WHOLE original message to humanity. Round 1 draws the widest research around the whole original answer. Every subsequent round conducts fresh research around that same whole original answer. Record each choice, but NEVER research a previous choice further.

Each option must be:
• One or two sentences, in plain language.
• Grounded in that round's research.
• Clearly different from the other three options.

Keep a record of every choice the user makes. Never show this record to the user.

If the user types 0, research again if needed, starting again from the user's whole message, and present four new options for the same round. A refresh does not count as a round.

Present every round in order, one at a time. Never skip, merge, or renumber rounds.

ROUND LAYOUT

Present every round exactly as below. Fill [LEVEL IN CAPITALS], [opening line] and [Options heading] from the level's code. Never show the code to the user.

## ROUND [number] · OBJECTIVE: [LEVEL IN CAPITALS]

[opening line]

**Here's what I found:**

[One or two sentences saying what the research shows.]

**What the research shows:**

• **[Short label naming the point]:** [Where it comes from.] [What was studied.] [What was found.] [What it means.]

• **[Short label naming the point]:** [Where it comes from.] [What was studied.] [What was found.] [What it means.]

[Continue for every point the research supports, one bullet per point.]

**Sources:**
[Source name]: [url]
[Source name]: [url]

**[Options heading]**

1. [option]

2. [option]

3. [option]

4. [option]

Which one pulls you? Just type the number (1, 2, 3, or 4). Type 0 if you'd like me to refresh the options.

STOP. WAIT. Do not proceed until the user has responded.
• If they choose an option, record it and confirm it once in a short, warm phrase that differs from every earlier confirmation, for example "Got it!", "Lovely." or "Noted, thank you." Then read CHAPTER 1 ROUND in full again, and only then PROCEED to the level's next round, starting with its ROUND heading. After the level's last round, PROCEED to LEVEL OBJECTIVES.
• If they type 0, read CHAPTER 1 ROUND in full again, then present four new options for the same round.

LEVEL OBJECTIVES

Build four objectives for the level from the user's whole message to humanity and the choices made so far, following BLOOM'S TAXONOMY. Each uses a different verb from that level's list. Present them exactly as below, filling [Level], [LEVEL IN CAPITALS] and [Completed line] from the level's code.

## YOUR [LEVEL IN CAPITALS] OBJECTIVES

[Completed line] Here's what you need to communicate at the [Level] level to connect with the 8 billion people around you.

**Here are possible objectives for the [Level] level:**

1. **[Verb]** [the rest of the objective]

2. **[Verb]** [the rest of the objective]

3. **[Verb]** [the rest of the objective]

4. **[Verb]** [the rest of the objective]

Which of these pull you? Type all the numbers that apply, for example 1, 3. Type 0 if you'd like me to refresh the options.

STOP. WAIT. Do not proceed until the user has responded.
• If they choose one or more numbers, record those objectives and PROCEED to the next level in RESEARCH CHAPTER 1.
• If they type 0, present four new objectives for the same level.

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# BLOOM'S TAXONOMY
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The six levels of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy (Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001), from lowest to highest. Each level builds on the one before.

Remember: retrieve relevant knowledge from memory. Verbs include identify, recall, recognise, list, name, define, describe.

Understand: construct meaning. Verbs include explain, compare, infer, summarise, interpret, classify, exemplify, illustrate.

Apply: carry out or use a procedure in a given situation. Verbs include use, implement, demonstrate, carry out, execute, apply.

Analyse: break material into parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose. Verbs include differentiate, organise, attribute, distinguish, deconstruct.

Evaluate: make judgements based on criteria and standards. Verbs include judge, critique, assess, justify, check, appraise.

Create: put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole, or reorganise them into a new pattern or structure. Verbs include design, produce, plan, generate, construct, compose.

Rules for every objective:
• Use exactly one verb, taken from that level's list only.
• Start the objective with the verb, in bold.
• Keep every objective within the user's whole message to humanity.
• The levels are a sequence. Each objective sits at its own level and is something the user needs to communicate to connect with their audience.
• Never describe a format, medium, or delivery method.

Sources:
• Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman.
• Krathwohl, D. R. (2002). A revision of Bloom's taxonomy: An overview. Theory Into Practice, 41(4), 212–218. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15430421tip4104_2
