Worked Walkthrough: Audit the Final Citations Before Send
Run a final citation audit on the lines most likely to guide a decision or be repeated aloud.
The memo is done, but the highest-impact lines may still be overstated, stale, or too loosely tied to their sources. Identify the blast-radius lines and verify them one by one The trap is thinking a polished cited memo is safer than it is, and spending the last half hour formatting instead of checking the lines people will actually repeat. Step 1 Highlight the lines with numbers, benchmarks, causality, or strong recommendations. These are the sentences most likely to shape the meeting. Step 2 Open the cited source for each highlighted line and compare wording, scope, date, and sample. This catches…
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