6. Can a paragraph survive being quoted

What this is

An assistant answering a question lifts a passage out of a page. A paragraph that opens with It, This or They refers to something that lived in the paragraph before — lifted out, it means nothing.

Why this matters for vitadefence.com

52 paragraph(s) on vitadefence.com cannot survive being lifted out of the page. An assistant answering a question quotes a passage, not a website — a paragraph that opens with It or This refers to something that stayed behind.

What we found on vitadefence.com

369 of 421 paragraphs across 10 page(s) could be lifted out and quoted as they stand. 421 page(s) exist in the sitemap; 10 were read.

369 of 421 paragraph(s) across 10 page(s) of vitadefence.com could be lifted out and quoted as they stand.

This is our own measure, not a published standard.

Step 1 — Open your worst page first

https://vitadefence.com/articles/african-mango — 7 of its paragraphs carry a stranded opening, the most on the site.

Step 2 — Rewrite the opening words, nothing else

Where a paragraph starts with It, This, They, These, There or However, replace that word with the thing it means. You are not rewriting the page — you are putting the subject back into the first sentence.

Step 3 — Work down the list

Then the next pages, in this order:

• https://vitadefence.com/articles/amino-acid-multi
• https://vitadefence.com/articles/artichoke-multi
• https://vitadefence.com/articles/acerola-multi
• https://vitadefence.com/articles/acai-berry-multi

How to check you did it right

• Take one rewritten paragraph, read it on its own with the page hidden, and ask whether it still says who and what it is about.
• If it does not, the opening word is still doing work the sentence should do.

What it looks like when it is working

• The ratio for vitadefence.com moves up from 0.88 toward 1.0 — today it is 369 liftable out of 421.
• This is our own measure, not a published standard.

The finished file is in your pack at packs/06-quotability/quotability.csv.