Appendix 05: References: Foundational Research

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        R4[Wu et al., 2024<br>xVerify]
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        C4[Chapter 4: Beyond Prompting]
        C5[Chapter 5: Ghosted by the Machine]
        C9[Chapter 9: Council of Purpose]
        C10[Chapter 10: Second Pass]
        C13[Chapter 13: Machine Coding]
        C14[Chapter 14: MIRROR & Reflection]
        C15[Chapter 15: When It Doesn't Work]
        CApp[Appendix: Prompting Tools]
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Wei et al., 2022. “Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models”
Relevance: Forms the backbone of your structured prompting techniques like MARS, GROWS, and CRITIC. CoT prompts are foundational for steering AI toward better reasoning.
Used in: Chapters 4 (Beyond Prompting), Chapter 5 (Ghosted by the Machine), Chapter 14 (Session Reflection)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903

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Appendix 05: References: Foundational Research