Trace Every Claim to Supplied Support
Separate supported statements, inference, and unverified assertions in a draft.
Supplied materials
- Original fictional packet. Source A, dated pilot log: “At one two-hour archive session, 12 volunteers tried the index; 9 located their assigned item.” Source B, coordinator note: “Items varied in difficulty. No prior method was tested alongside the index, and no later follow-up occurred.” Draft: “The index permanently halves search time for every archive user and is approved for expansion.”
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Learn the idea
An evidence audit checks each meaningful clause against a source. Ask who, when, what was measured, whether a comparison exists, and what status is established. A supports nine of twelve locating assigned items in one session. B supplies difficulty and design limits. Neither gives search times, permanent effects, all users, or approval.
A source link or citation does not make a claim supported if the source lacks the claimed information. Label a practical interpretation as an inference and a future action as a proposal. The appropriate revision is not that the index failed; it is that the packet reports limited item-finding results and leaves speed, retention, causal benefit, and expansion approval unestablished.
- Break the draft into permanent, halves time, every user, and approval claims.
- Match each to A or B, marking unsupported clauses explicitly.
- Write a supported finding with its session scope.
- Add design limits and identify any next step as a proposal.
See the method in action
The pilot log records nine of twelve volunteers locating assigned items during one two-hour session. Varying item difficulty and no comparison method limit attributing success to the index. Search-time reduction, later effects, broad generalization, and expansion approval are not established by the packet.
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The cited packet records limited item-finding outcomes, but lacks time, later-effect, comparison, and approval evidence.
The audit identifies what was actually recorded and what was not. Missing measures or approval do not prove an opposite outcome.
Take it further
Add Source C: “The coordinator approved a one-shelf trial next month; search times will be recorded.” Model: the packet now supports approval for that limited future trial, not approval for all-shelf expansion or an already measured time saving. Keep timing and approved scope precise.
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