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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19   AIL 1858 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Checking What a Source Contains

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The idea

The Wilde and Shaw chapters were counted before being described, which is how the five hundred and fourteen hundred word figures in entry 1832 were arrived at. A claim about what a source holds is a factual claim and needs the same checking as any other.

In practice

Count before describing.

Where people slip

An absence claim needs evidence too.

Your place on the trail

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