Your First Stack, Read Back
6 questions, drawn from the five lessons behind this one, and the only thing worth having open beside them is the stack you picked in the first lesson.
This is the knowledge check. Answer as you would answer somebody sitting across a table, send it once, then read what comes back against each one.
True or false?
A total that a document assistant has added up for you can be treated the same way as a line it quoted for you.
Fill in the blanks
Finish the habit from lesson one
For anything you flag about this document, ________ it comes from, word for word, and tell me where it appears.
You have a lease to sign by Friday and the whole document is attached. Which ask is the briefing rather than the summary?
"Summarise this lease in five bullet points."
"I have to decide by Friday whether to sign this. Read it the way a careful property lawyer would, give me the five things that most affect that decision, and tell me what a lease like this normally contains that this one leaves out."
"What are the main themes of this document?"
"Rewrite this lease in plain English."
Put these in the correct order
Put the handoff pass in the order it happens
Ask one question only the brief could answer, and check the answer
Open a clean conversation and paste the brief in, labelled for what it is
Ask the crowded conversation to write a handoff brief
Attach the original documents again beside the brief
Match the pairs
Match each way out of the panel to the job it is for
Your answer about an attached report feels oddly vague, and the report is anything but. What is the first thing to establish?
Whether the file was read at all, by asking for its first paragraph quoted back
Whether the question was worded too broadly, by asking it again in more detail
Whether the conversation has filled up, by starting a fresh one
Whether the report is simply a vague document, by reading it yourself
Finish every lesson here and this academy issues a certificate of completion carrying its own branding and your name, plus a page where anyone can check it. Reading anonymously records nothing, and a free account collects it.
Open the stack you named in the first lesson, attach the whole thing, and send the briefing ask before you close this page.