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A small practice for the contextless quotation

A practical exercise: Record its source and surrounding meaning before reusing it.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Memory needs context

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A striking sentence is copied without its source.
  2. Record its source and surrounding meaning before reusing it.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

Try a question

Which part is an observation, and which part is an assumption you could check?