# Week 9 — Tuesday, October 20 ### Consultation · Tutorial rough cut critique --- ## Focus Read or watch the tutorial as a stranger would. Find where it loses them. --- ## Due today — before 9:00 AM **Tutorial rough cut** — complete pass, start to finish, rough. **Weekly progress report.** --- ## Bring to class - The rough cut, in a form your classmate can actually consume - The demo piece - A list of the sections you are least confident about --- ## In class **Peer reproduction test.** The core exercise today: your classmate attempts to follow your tutorial without your help. They will get stuck. Where they get stuck is your real feedback, and it is almost never where you expected. This is the most useful thirty minutes in the project. Watch them work and write down every hesitation. **Instructor critique** on clarity, pacing, technical accuracy, and whether the *why* is present or only the *what*. **Production standards.** Screen capture quality, audio levels, editing pace, screenshot legibility, formatting. The craft of the tutorial itself, which is a real and separate skill from the technique it teaches. **AI verification pass**, if applicable. If you used AI to draft or restructure, we go through it looking for the confident-but-wrong statements these tools produce. Every claim gets checked against something you personally executed. **Supervised production.** --- ## Before next week 1. **Fix everything the reproduction test surfaced.** Those are your highest-priority notes. 2. **Polish the tutorial to final.** Due next Tuesday. 3. **Publish it.** ArtStation, personal site, YouTube, Medium, or a discipline community. You submit the live link, not a file. 4. **Write the AI disclosure note** if applicable — two or three sentences naming the tools and what they did. --- ## Note — where readers actually get lost The reproduction test almost always reveals the same category of problem: **the step you did not know you were taking.** Something you do automatically — a mode you switch, a setting you always have on, a window you open without thinking — never makes it into the tutorial, because it does not register as a step. The reader hits it and stops, and cannot even articulate what is wrong, because the thing they are missing is invisible. This is why you cannot test your own tutorial. Watch your classmate closely. Every pause is a missing step.