Week 1 Audit: Your first audit

The first audit --- practising on the directory assistance notice, where the outcome is already known, before you have to audit anything live

22 February 2027

An audit is not a debate about whether the pitch is right. It’s a close read of one document, checking whether its own four parts agree with each other. This week’s document already ran its course, so there’s no argument to have about the ending — only the discipline of reading it that way, on a document where it’s cheap to be wrong.

Before the session#

Read this week’s notice twice: once straight through as the sales case it’s imitating, once again stopping at every heading. Bring the sentence where the register audibly changes.

In the session#

Short round of “where’s the seam” — everyone names the sentence they found, and we check whether the group agrees on where pitch ends and audit begins. Then we work through the spec above as a group, out loud, against the lecture’s own text rather than against what anyone assumes the right answer is.

Afterwards#

Nothing here is marked. It’s the only audit in the course practising on a case with a known outcome, so what you take from it is the habit — reading for the seam — that the marked audits in later weeks assume you already have.