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Writing with citations
Who this is for: you have sources in Zotero and a document to write. Work laptop with locked-down Word counts — this path covers the permission problem specifically.
What you’ll be able to do at the end: insert citations in your word processor, switch styles, and generate a bibliography that updates itself.
| # | Lesson | Time | Moves milestone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Install the word processor plugin | 5 min | M3 (setup) |
| 6 | Insert citations and choose a style | 7 min | M3 — first citation |
| 7 | Generate and update your bibliography | 6 min | M4 — correct bibliography |
| 8 | Fix common citation formatting errors | 7 min | M3/M4 (retain) |
Why this path exists: “the Zotero tab doesn’t appear in Word” and “my citations show as ADDIN codes” are among the most frequent, most fixable problems in the support data. Milestone M3 — first citation — is the academy’s primary activation event, so this path is deliberately short and direct. The two job aids compress lessons 6–8 onto one page each.