Chapter 1: The Academic Precision Core

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1. 01

   Sprint 1.1: Show, Indicate, Reveal

   Learner selects an evidence verb whose strength matches the strength of the evidence, instead of defaulting to show.

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2. 02

   Sprint 1.2: Affect, Shape, Undermine

   Learner distinguishes verbs of neutral influence from verbs that carry a positive or negative direction, and stops using affect as a universal default.

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3. 03

   Sprint 1.3: Argue, Claim, Maintain

   Learner reports other people's positions with verbs that signal how much the writer endorses them, rather than using say and think throughout.

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4. 04

   Sprint 1.4: Approach, Mechanism, Measure

   Learner names the abstract machinery of an argument instead of repeating way and thing, and uses the correct article and preposition with each.

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5. 05

   Sprint 1.5: The Collocation Spine

   Learner produces eight high-frequency academic collocations as whole units, and recognises that the verb in each is not freely substitutable.

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6. 06

   Chapter 1 Review: The Precision Core

   Learner retrieves all forty Chapter 1 items across the five clusters, identifies which cluster is still weak, and produces a Task 2 body paragraph graded against the Lexical Resource descriptors rather than corrected line by line.

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