Teach the idea directly. The learner has a few minutes and should spend them understanding something useful, not hearing a tour of the bibliography.
- Start with the concept, a concrete example, or a useful question.
- Avoid routine lead-ins such as “Google defines…”, “OpenAI's documentation says…”, “According to Microsoft…”, and “The guide recommends…”.
- Put routine publisher attribution in section citation IDs and the Sources & further reading notes. Keep those references accurate and attached to the claims they support.
- Do not replace an attribution phrase with other filler. Keep the explanation and cut the preamble.
- Do not pad a lesson to recover words removed during editing. Use the space for a useful example or explanation only when it advances the learning objective.
Before: “Google's machine-learning glossary calls this use of a trained language model inference.”
After: “Using a trained model to produce an answer is called inference.”
Before: “OpenAI's latency guidance identifies several possible improvements, including fewer requests, shorter outputs, and streaming results.”
After: “To reduce waiting, try fewer requests, shorter outputs, or showing the response as it arrives. Measure which change helps the task.”
Keep a concise attribution when teaching a named framework, reporting a specific study or statistic, quoting someone, describing a vendor-specific capability, or distinguishing a disputed or subjective claim. A vendor's claim must not become an established fact merely because its name was removed.
Keep uncertainty, dates when material, and distinctions between illustrative examples and observed results. Label a fictional scenario clearly when introducing it; repeat the distinction only when needed to avoid a misleading new claim. Preserve healthcare and finance boundaries that change how the learner should understand or use the information.
Read the draft as spoken teaching. For each publisher mention, ask: does hearing this name help explain the concept or assess the claim? If not, move it to the source notes. Check that the edited sentence still means what its evidence supports.
The same rule applies to original courses, standalone lessons, and weekly updates. Retain source provenance and honest review dates. Wording edits do not constitute a fresh source review, and existing released lesson versions and saved recordings must not be silently overwritten.
This preference was supplied by the owner after using the learning modules on September 15, 2026.