# Audit an AI draft for claims

AI Content Creation | Module 04: Research before you draft

## Your goal

Remove, qualify, or verify every unsupported statement.

Read a draft sentence by sentence. Mark names, times, amounts, promises, and comparisons. These are factual claims that need support, even when they appear in a headline.

Suppose a draft says Green Bench has saved one thousand notebooks. The source pack gives no impact figure. Remove the number and ask for evidence rather than replacing it with another guess.

Keep a claim log with the statement, source, decision, and revised wording. For uncertain details, write a visible internal note and hold publication until it is resolved.

## Source pack

FICTIONAL PRACTICE BRIEF: Green Bench is a student repair club. It runs a free notebook-cover repair workshop on Saturday, 14:00 to 16:00, in Room B. There are 12 places. Learners bring one worn notebook; tools and scrap card are provided. Register using the club form. No date, form URL, access arrangements, impact figures, or testimonials have been supplied. Ask the organiser about missing details before publishing. This is a creative exercise, not a real event.

## Worked example

Audit this invented draft: Our certified experts have saved 1,000 notebooks. Join our free Saturday workshop in Room B.

### Unsupported claims

Certified experts and one thousand saved notebooks have no supporting evidence in the source pack and must be removed.

### Supported details

The source pack supports a free workshop on Saturday in Room B, but the exact date still needs confirmation.

### Corrected draft

Bring a worn notebook to our free cover repair workshop on Saturday, 14:00 to 16:00, in Room B. Confirm date before release.

## Your work

Audit this invented draft: Our certified experts have saved 1,000 notebooks. Join our free Saturday workshop in Room B.

### Unsupported claims

Write at least 8 words.


### Supported details

Write at least 8 words.


### Corrected draft

Write at least 8 words.

## Review your work

- [ ] I found the unsupported qualification and number.
- [ ] I retained facts that the brief supports.
- [ ] I marked the publication blocker.

Completeness checks do not assess creative quality or factual accuracy. Review the actual work yourself or with a mentor.

## Quiz

1. What is the best replacement for an unsupported impact number?
   A. A supported description without the invented number.
   B. A smaller number that seems safer.
   C. A stronger adjective instead of evidence.

2. The draft says thousands of notebooks saved, but no source supports it. What is a valid edit?
   A. Change thousands to hundreds.
   B. Add the word probably before thousands.
   C. Remove the impact claim and describe the workshop.

## Quiz explanations

1. A: Changing the size of an invented number does not make it reliable.

2. C: A smaller or qualified invented number is still unsupported.

## Further reading

[Google: creating helpful content](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content)