Welcome to Module 5: Polished Is Not Verified
Work through the explanation, apply it to the example, and complete the quick check before continuing.
Read this short answer
Imagine that an AI assistant receives approved notes about a fictional community course. It writes:
The Lakemere Digital Skills Course begins on Monday, 5 October, at 6:00 p.m. in Learning Room 2. The six-week programme is completely free and includes a recognised completion certificate. Participants should bring a laptop, although ten loan devices are available. Registration closes on 1 October.
The answer is clear and specific. It may also contain unsupported details.
Suppose the approved notes state only:
- First session: Monday, 5 October.
- Time: 6:00 p.m.
- Place: Learning Room 2.
- Learners may bring a laptop.
The duration, price, certificate, loan devices, and registration deadline are not supported.
Good writing and correct work are different
An output can be:
- Fluent but false.
- Accurate but incomplete.
- Factually correct but irrelevant.
- Well organised but based on a hidden assumption.
- Supported by a real source that does not apply to the situation.
Review must go beyond spelling, grammar, and confidence.
What you will learn
You will learn to:
- Inspect accuracy, completeness, relevance, assumptions, reasoning, tone, and source quality.
- Mark claims that need evidence.
- Check whether a citation exists and supports the exact claim.
- Verify important claims independently.
- Increase review depth when mistakes have greater consequences.
- Record checks, changes, decisions, and remaining uncertainty.
Our main rule
Treat every material claim as unverified until suitable evidence supports it.
Material means important enough to affect the result, decision, action, or person relying on it.
At the end of the module, you will review a deliberately flawed output against a supplied source pack and record an accept, revise, verify, or reject decision.
First, let us build a complete inspection method.