Lesson 1 · Chapter 1, Check Your Citation
Check Your Citation
An 8-minute video lesson on Chapter 1, Check Your Citation of The Citation Code, with two pause-and-practice exercises.
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What you will be able to do
- Run the four checks (identity, location, support, status) in order, before you format anything.
- Recognize the failure each check catches: the wrong document, the wrong page, words that are not there, an authority that no longer does the work.
- Settle whose rules govern a document first: the recipient, the kind of document and the filing date.
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