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Source Evaluation Worksheet: Lateral Reading in Five Fields
A structured worksheet for evaluating an unfamiliar publisher in about five minutes, with space to record what you found and what you still do not know.
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Worksheets
Structured pages for working through something in writing, alone or with a group. Writing is the part that makes the reasoning visible.
Worksheets exist because reasoning done in your head tends to skip steps and cannot be reviewed afterwards. Writing the steps down slows the process, which is the intended effect, and leaves a record you can check against what actually happened.
Each worksheet ends with a field most templates omit: what you were unable to establish. A completed worksheet with that field blank has almost always been completed too confidently.
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Assumption Audit Worksheet: Finding the Load-Bearing Premise
A five-step worksheet for locating the assumption a conclusion cannot survive without, rather than listing every assumption it makes.
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Feed Audit Worksheet: Ten Items, Three Questions
A short structured audit of your own feed that makes the selection process visible and separates what you see from what is prevalent.
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Claim Sorting Worksheet: Observation, Inference, Judgment
A four-column worksheet for taking apart a paragraph of argument and locating where a disagreement actually sits.
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