Lesson 06: Talking about your work without violating

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Make claims both truthful and releasable. Build a judgment you can explain and a result another reader can inspect.

Prerequisites: know the difference between generated text and source evidence. For configuration vocabulary, use the AI workflow reference. This is public self-study, not official government training, accreditation, a clearance or a professional credential.

Observable outcomes: Rewrite synthetic career claims using artifact, contribution and limitation; explain why generic wording does not confer release approval.

Part 1 Make claims both truthful and releasable

A good accomplishment states your contribution, method, result, evidence and limitations. Removing a program name does not make the remaining text releasable: quantities, dates, customer type, locations, vulnerabilities and relationships may still reveal protected context. Use the applicable security or prepublication review process before publishing real work. An interviewee or interviewer holding a clearance does not itself authorize disclosure in that room.

For ordinary self-study, start with wholly synthetic artifacts instead of sanitizing real sensitive records. Say which part you built and which part came from a template, teammate or assistant. Describe a tested classroom prototype as a tested classroom prototype. A metric needs its denominator, baseline, procedure and scope; never invent workplace savings from lab results.

Part 2 Synthetic worked example

Synthetic evidence: Riley wrote three retrieval tests for a fictional ten-question corpus. Two unsupported citations were caught. Supported bullet: “Designed three citation checks for a synthetic retrieval exercise and documented two unsupported outputs.” Unsupported bullet: “Deployed an agency AI platform and improved accuracy 40%.” No deployment or improvement measurement exists.

Guided practice: write the tempting conclusion first, then underline the fact that does not support it. Rewrite the conclusion with that limitation visible. Identify one additional observation that would change the decision.

Practice exercise · 30 MIN

Independent synthetic practice

Rewrite four invented bullets: exaggerated deployment, unowned team result, sensitive-sounding fictional identifiers and unsupported percentage. Add claim, artifact, individual contribution and limitation columns. Rehearse a refusal to discuss details outside authorized scope.

Use paper or a local notes file. All names, records and outcomes are invented. No model account, API, installation, paid service or private file is needed. If you optionally use an assistant on these synthetic cases, keep its output as an unverified draft and apply the same review.

Answer feedback and acceptance: Pass when every result traces to evidence, synthetic scope remains visible, and omission does not become a claim of disclosure approval. Feedback: generic customer descriptions and percentages can still require review in real work.

Retry: explain the failed criterion, repair the artifact and test a new invented case with a different boundary or consequence.

Next step: carry your artifact into a bounded career plan in lesson 07; retain assumptions and unanswered questions.

Talking about your work without violating

Describe work truthfully and within its release rules.

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Talking about your work without violating

0:00 · What you will learn

0:06 · The idea

0:20 · One useful term

0:29 · A worked example

0:45 · Your turn to think

1:03 · Why this answer works

1:14 · Check 1

1:20 · Check 2

1:25 · Check 3

1:30 · Now try a different case

Part 1 Make claims both truthful and releasable

Part 2 Synthetic worked example