{"id":"search-hs-flood-sources-primary-table","audience":"high-school","category":"ai-search","track":"research","technique":"format","title":"Sort your history sources into primary and secondary","free":false,"task":"For your history project on the 1952 Millbrook flood, your teacher wants a source table with columns Source, Year, Type and Use for, where Type is Primary (made at the time or by someone who was there) or Secondary. One row per source, no bullets. After the table, write one line starting Conflict: that names which two sources disagree on the death toll and which one to trust. Under 200 words.","materialLabel":"Your search results (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Search results for \"Millbrook flood 1952\"\n\n1. Millbrook Herald, front page, April 9, 1952: \"RIVER TAKES 14 LIVES - Main Street under six feet of water.\" Scanned on the town library site.\n\n2. \"Report on the Millbrook River Flood of April 1952,\" U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, published 1953. Lists 14 deaths and $3.1 million in damage.\n\n3. Oral history: interview with Ruth Dalby, age 9 at the time of the flood, recorded by the Millbrook Historical Society in 1998.\n\n4. \"Rivers That Changed Towns\" - book chapter by historian Paul Varga, 2011. Discusses the flood and the levee built in 1956.\n\n5. \"Top 10 Forgotten Disasters\" - blog post on HistoryBuzz, 2021. Says \"41 people died\" and has no sources listed.\n\n6. Photo collection: 22 photos taken by Herald photographer Al Moreno during the flood, held by the state archive.\n\nYour notes: project due Monday, need at least 2 primary sources. Teacher said blogs are OK only for ideas, not facts.","rules":[{"type":"maxBullets","max":0},{"type":"maxWords","max":200},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not defining primary","why":"The AI calls the 1998 interview secondary because it was recorded later.","fix":"Add: \"Primary means made at the time or by someone who was there.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Asking for a summary","why":"The AI writes paragraphs about each source instead of a table you can paste into your project.","fix":"Say: \"Table with columns Source, Year, Type, Use for. One row per source.\"","checks":["r0","maxBullets"]},{"title":"Missing the disagreement","why":"The AI lists the sources but doesn't notice two of them give different death tolls.","fix":"Add: \"After the table, one line: Conflict: which sources disagree and which to trust.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Long or formatted output","why":"AI adds a heading, bold text and a tips section after the table.","fix":"Add: \"No heading, no bold, nothing after the Conflict line.\"","checks":["maxWords","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Asks for a table with columns","patterns":["table","columns?","source, year"]},{"label":"Defines primary","patterns":["primary","at the time","was there"]},{"label":"Asks about the disagreement","patterns":["conflict","disagree","death toll"]},{"label":"Bans extras","patterns":["no bullets","no heading","no bold","nothing else"]}],"hint":"Tell the AI what counts as primary and what shape you want, and ask it to point out where sources disagree.","rubricLabels":["There is a table with columns Source, Year, Type and Use for, with one row for each of the 6 sources","Type is Primary for the 1952 Herald, the 1953 Army Corps report, the Ruth Dalby oral history and the Al Moreno photos, and Secondary for the 2011 book chapter and the 2021 blog","The line after the table starts with Conflict: and says the blog's 41 deaths disagrees with the Herald or Army Corps report's 14, and to trust 14"]}