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After the reasoning analysis finishes, Fracture runs a separate source pass on your draft. It pulls out your factual claims, searches the public web for each one, and returns a support status along with starter citations for the claims it can match. The goal is to give you a starting point for building your bibliography and flag the claims that need more work before they can carry weight in your argument.

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How It Works

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Claim Extraction

The engine pulls out quoted passages, the claims it flagged during the reasoning analysis, and factual-looking sentences from your draft.
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Public Web Search

For each extracted claim, Fracture searches public pages and retrieves page text to compare against your claim.
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Match Scoring

The retrieved pages are compared against your claim and assigned a support status based on how closely the page’s content matches.
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Citation Building

For well-matched claims, Fracture builds a starter MLA or APA entry from the matched page’s details. Your citation format preference is set in Settings.

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Support Statuses

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How to Read Results Well

  • Treat “likely supported” as “worth opening,” not “verified” — a high match score means the page discusses the same subject in similar terms, not that your specific claim has been proven.
  • For any load-bearing claim, open the source and read the passage yourself — do not rely on the match status alone when the claim carries real weight in your argument.
  • Prefer primary sources, official data, and reputable publications over aggregators and secondary summaries.
  • If a claim is flagged “citation incomplete” or “vague,” name the source precisely in your draft and re-run the check — the engine needs enough specificity to find the right page.

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What a Match Does and Does Not Mean

  • A match means the page discusses the same subject in similar terms — not that it proves your specific claim or supports the exact conclusion you attached to it.
  • A match does not confirm the page is accurate or authoritative — a reputable-looking result can still be wrong or outdated.
  • A match does not check the methodology or credibility of a study the engine finds — evaluating the quality of the source is your responsibility.

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Citation Format

Fracture builds starter citations in either MLA or APA format. Set your preferred style in Settings before running an audit, and the source-verification summary and exported bibliography will use that format throughout.
Always open any linked source and confirm the exact passage before using it in a final paper or speech. Every match is tentative — the source check is a starting-point finder, not a fact-checker.