Reading and Writing, Honestly - Claude Cheat Sheet

Triaging a reading pile against one question, then interrogating each source for claim, evidence and limits and gridding them. Then finding an argument, building your own outline, diagnosing a draft rather than rewriting it, and accounting honestly for your use.

On the sheet:

- The honest line: what to keep, share with care, and never hand over

- The reading pipeline: four minutes of triage, then read

- Triage: sort the pile against your one question

- Interrogate a source, do not summarize it: claim, evidence, limits, with quotes

- Claim, evidence, limits: the same five fields from every source

- The grid: five sources side by side, to find the disagreement

- Notes you can still cite from: keep the page, and leave your own take blank

- Argument, not topic: being questioned into a claim someone could dispute

- The outline that is yours: a skeleton in your words, no sentences drafted

- Diagnose, do not rewrite: be told what is wrong, then fix it yourself

- Keep the record, write the honest account: the transcript as proof, and a plain declaration

Two A4 pages, printed front and back, sized to print once and keep beside you while you work. Written in short sentences and plain English, for readers whose first language is not English and clearer for everyone else because of it.

It pairs with the Reading Pipeline and The Writing Partner books, so you can learn each idea in full and then revise it here in two pages.

Every product fact on this sheet - every plan, price, limit, setting and menu - was checked against Anthropic's own published documentation before the file was made. This is an independent study guide, not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Anthropic. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.