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English Composition · Chapter 10

The Pre-Submission Audit Bench

Twenty minutes, once, before every paper that uses sources. Here is somebody’s draft with its reference list. Work the four checks in order — match every marker to an entry, sweep the quotations, click every link, then find out how much of the paragraph is actually yours. This draft has been salted with the failures instructors see most.
The five-point audit