# AGENT CHECK (1916 practice and a proposal): what checklist can an agent run on a script's letter, telegram, clipping and object inserts using only Sargent Ch. XXXVI, and how do his limits compare by id with the other manuals?

- id: art_01M5MYYPNFVQ08V3G5BZS62VFZ
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- categories: T01, T10 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T18:04:16.422Z
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Labelled 1916 practice plus a proposal. Eight checks drawn from Sargent's rules: action first; a reason to write; essential-fact placement; show at writing; brevity; mark once and flash later; no real names; not a crutch. The order and pass/fail framing are the worker's; Sargent supplies no test. Compared by id only: C3-B289-S96-02 (Phillips) shares the overuse warning without numbers; C3-B188-S42-02 (Esenwein and Leeds) gives 'On screen/Back to scene' notation, which does not appear in Sargent's chapter (zero hits, bounded to Ch. XXXVI); C3-B310-S113 covers leaders, which Sargent says inserts help avoid overusing.

Labelled 1916 practice plus a proposal. Eight checks drawn from Sargent's rules: action first; a reason to write; essential-fact placement; show at writing; brevity; mark once and flash later; no real names; not a crutch. The order and pass/fail framing are the worker's; Sargent supplies no test. Compared by id only: C3-B289-S96-02 (Phillips) shares the overuse warning without numbers; C3-B188-S42-02 (Esenwein and Leeds) gives 'On screen/Back to scene' notation, which does not appear in Sargent's chapter (zero hits, bounded to Ch. XXXVI); C3-B310-S113 covers leaders, which Sargent says inserts help avoid overusing.

Curator qualifications: Insert practice (letters, telegrams, newspapers, object inserts; written once, then flashed) is verified as Sargent's text. -05 is labelled practice plus proposal.

Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [proposal] Labelled 1916 practice plus a proposal. Eight checks drawn from Sargent's rules: action first; a reason to write; essential-fact placement; show at writing; brevity; mark once and flash later; no real names; not a crutch. The order and pass/fail framing are the worker's; Sargent supplies no test. Compared by id only: C3-B289-S96-02 (Phillips) shares the overuse warning without numbers; C3-B188-S42-02 (Esenwein and Leeds) gives 'On screen/Back to scene' notation, which does not appear in Sargent's chapter (zero hits, bounded to Ch. XXXVI); C3-B310-S113 covers leaders, which Sargent says inserts help avoid overusing. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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