Defensible source brief
A student has 90 minutes to turn a broad seminar prompt into a short research answer they can defend in class.
Tools used in this walkthrough
Scenario
A student has 90 minutes to turn a broad seminar prompt into a short research answer they can defend in class.Output artifact
One-page brief: question, source table, three claim cards, caveat list, methods note.
Final artifact this walkthrough produces.
Frame the question and exclusion rule before opening a search surface.
Frame the question and exclusion rule before opening a search surface.
Use Semantic Scholar for papers, Perplexity for current context, and Zotero for only opened sources.
Use Semantic Scholar for papers, Perplexity for current context, and Zotero for only opened sources.
Load the final source pack into NotebookLM to test claims against the corpus.
Load the final source pack into NotebookLM to test claims against the corpus.
Write the brief with source type, checked date, and caveat beside each claim.
Write the brief with source type, checked date, and caveat beside each claim.
The walkthrough is only done when: One-page brief: question, source table, three claim cards, caveat list, methods note. survives these checks.
- No citation appears unless the source was opened and classified.
- Every claim names what the source does not prove.
- Tool use is disclosed in the methods note.