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Day 34: Citation Auditing: Defeating Fabricated Bibliographies (Workflows & Media Literacy)

EveryAge AI · Phase 3 (Days 31–45): Real-World Workflows, Media Literacy & Research Integrity Track

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Day 34 (Phase 3 (Days 31–45): Real-World Workflows, Media Literacy & Research Integrity): Citation Auditing: Defeating Fabricated Bibliographies. Goal: Spot and eliminate hallucinated DOIs, invented authors, and misattributed quotes.

Learning Goal: Spot and eliminate hallucinated DOIs, invented authors, and misattributed quotes.

Key Concepts

Core Principle (Day 34): Spot and eliminate hallucinated DOIs, invented authors, and misattributed quotes.
Zero-PII Safeguard: Strip all student, child, family, client, and staff identifiers before using any digital tool.
Human-in-the-Loop Verification: Cross-check every factual claim, citation, calculation, and tone against primary sources before adoption.

Hands-On Activity

Audit a 5-item fictional bibliography containing 2 fabricated citations and document how you proved they were fake.

Practice Prompt Template (Zero-PII)

Create a citation-audit exercise on [topic] with three real public-domain works and two clearly labeled fictional citation formats to train students in library verification.

Human-in-the-Loop Checkpoint: Confirm every cited work exists in an official catalog or journal database.

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