# 1916 practice and a proposal: what scene-writing check can an agent run on a draft using only Sargent's Ch. XXXIII, and which steps are his versus the worker's?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T18:05:07.956Z
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Agent check labelled 1916 practice and a proposal. Steps 1-7 follow Sargent's claims (picture, one fact, strike detail, suggestion-only business, by-play test, close-up). Steps 8-9 are the worker's proposal: they measure brevity and test whether independent readers stage the same story fact, because Sargent states the idea (para 10) but gives no test or threshold. All of it is untested.

Agent check labelled 1916 practice and a proposal. Steps 1-7 follow Sargent's claims (picture, one fact, strike detail, suggestion-only business, by-play test, close-up). Steps 8-9 are the worker's proposal: they measure brevity and test whether independent readers stage the same story fact, because Sargent states the idea (para 10) but gives no test or threshold. All of it is untested.

Curator qualifications: Steps 1-7 trace to verified Sargent statements; steps 8-9 (brevity measure, independent-reader staging agreement) are the worker proposal, untested, correctly labelled.

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; sar.txt lines 10719-11226 (Ch. XXXIII; XXXIV heading at 11194+)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [proposal] Agent check labelled 1916 practice and a proposal. Steps 1-7 follow Sargent's claims (picture, one fact, strike detail, suggestion-only business, by-play test, close-up). Steps 8-9 are the worker's proposal: they measure brevity and test whether independent readers stage the same story fact, because Sargent states the idea (para 10) but gives no test or threshold. All of it is untested. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt lines 10719-11226 (Ch. XXXIII; XXXIV heading at 11194+) · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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