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key: mechanic/learning-accessibility--t317
type: mechanic
id: learning-accessibility--t317
lang: en
title: 'Argumentation, source verification and critical reading'
summary: >-
  Critical reading compares claims with sources, evidential quality and possible
  alternative explanations.
updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
status: active
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aliases:
  - Argumentation and source checking
tags:
  - 'Children, education and accessibility'
  - Mechanics and variants
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  - id: source-d4c7409816f79db5
    title: Game Accessibility Guidelines
    url: 'https://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/'
    verifiedAt: null
  - id: source-86b980b788f54522
    title: Her Story
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
    verifiedAt: null
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attributes:
  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Argumentation and source checking
    description: >-
      Critical reading compares claims with sources, evidential quality and
      possible alternative explanations.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/adventure-her-story-00.webp
      width: 1440
      height: 900
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      game: Her Story
      sourceUrl: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
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      credit: Sam Barlow
      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed
        Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: 'A search query, recordings and a user tag'
      alt: 'A search query, recordings and a user tag'
      markers:
        - x: 58
          'y': 40
          label: A query retrieves related recordings
        - x: 44
          'y': 59
          label: The player adds a personal tag
    tips:
      - 'Separate the source evidence, interpretation and conclusion.'
    examples:
      - title: Her Story
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
endsAt: null
provenance: >-
  Original bilingual editorial overviews authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and reviewed on 2026-10-21. Scenarios are hypothetical design
  examples; prototype checks describe work to perform, not completed playtests.
  Primary sources support the stated techniques and implementation context, not
  every proposed variant.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/learning-accessibility
---
# Argumentation, source verification and critical reading

id: learning-accessibility--t317
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/learning-accessibility--t317
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/learning-accessibility--t317/

Critical reading compares claims with sources, evidential quality and possible alternative explanations.

## At a glance

![A search query, recordings and a user tag](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/adventure-her-story-00.webp)

[Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. A query retrieves related recordings
2. The player adds a personal tag

- Separate the source evidence, interpretation and conclusion.

- [Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/)

## How it works

Critical reading compares claims with sources, evidential quality and possible alternative explanations.

## Variants

### Mechanic variants

<a id="t317-variants"></a>

- Provenance connects a quote to original material. <a id="t317-v1"></a>
- Context tests the limits of an inference. <a id="t317-v2"></a>
- Arguments separate evidence from the claim. <a id="t317-v3"></a>
- Counterexamples test an overbroad generalization. <a id="t317-v4"></a>

## Design example

A player compares a headline with its table and notices the conclusion applies to only one observed group.

Prototype check: Test reasoning about evidence rather than selecting by visual appearance or a familiar source name.

## Context and limits

Learning tasks should assess the stated action while accessibility supports different motor and sensory channels. Each overview separates player actions, state changes and alternative rules. Examples are hypothetical design scenarios, not claims about a named game. A prototype check states an observable question for the next iteration. Existing detailed references remain separately linked from the direction map.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original bilingual editorial overviews authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and reviewed on 2026-10-21. Scenarios are hypothetical design examples; prototype checks describe work to perform, not completed playtests. Primary sources support the stated techniques and implementation context, not every proposed variant.

- [Game Accessibility Guidelines](https://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/) (id: source-d4c7409816f79db5)
- [Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/) (id: source-86b980b788f54522)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors