Forensic Document-Process Report
File: ENGL204_final_essay.docx · Generated June 20, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Strong evidence of an authentic writing process
1. What this report is
Microsoft Word silently records forensic traces of how a document was produced: a table of editing sessions (Revision Save IDs), cumulative active editing time, a save counter, and creation/modification timestamps. This report extracts and explains those traces exactly as they exist inside the submitted file. Nothing was added, inferred or generated — every number below was read from the file itself and can be independently verified by any technical examiner.
2. Summary of findings
- Word recorded 14 distinct editing sessions — the document was opened, worked on and saved many separate times.
- The file logs 312 minutes of active editing time, consistent with the document being written in Word.
- The document was saved 23 times.
- Work on the document spans 103.3 hours between creation and last save.
3. Document timeline
| Created | June 14, 2026 at 19:22 UTC |
|---|---|
| Last saved | June 19, 2026 at 02:41 UTC |
| Working span | 4.3 days |
| Times saved | 23 |
| Author name in file | Jordan Riley |
| Last modified by | Jordan Riley |
| Produced by | Microsoft Office Word (v16.0000) |
4. Editing sessions
Word generated 14 distinct session identifiers for this document. A new identifier is created each time the document is opened, edited and saved — the table below shows how the text is distributed across the sessions in which it was written.
| Session ID | Words written | Share of document |
|---|---|---|
007B3D19 | 612 | 24.6% |
00C90A55 | 540 | 21.7% |
004F77E2 | 431 | 17.3% |
00A41C2B | 356 | 14.3% |
00D2B871 | 233 | 9.4% |
00891F03 | 158 | 6.4% |
0034CA6D | 92 | 3.7% |
00E1129A | 41 | 1.6% |
0066B5F0 | 24 | 1% |
5. Editing effort
| Total active editing time | 312 minutes |
|---|---|
| Document length | 2,487 words |
| Editing pace | 12.55 minutes per 100 words |
For reference, drafting original prose typically takes well over a minute per 100 words of final text; pasting existing text takes seconds regardless of length.
6. Limitations — read this before submitting
- This report documents what the file's own metadata records. It is documentary evidence of the file's editing history, not a certification of authorship, and it cannot prove what happened outside this file.
- Metadata can be absent for innocent reasons: documents written in Google Docs, LibreOffice, Pages or online editors and later exported to .docx typically carry little or no Word editing history.
7. How a panel should read this report
- Editing session (RSID)
- Every time Word opens a document, edits happen and the file is saved, Word stamps that work with a new random Revision Save ID. Many sessions spread over time is the signature of a document written iteratively by a person. RSIDs cannot be edited from inside Word.
- Total editing time
- A timer Word keeps while the document is open and in the foreground, saved into the file itself (docProps/app.xml <TotalTime>).
- Save counter
- The number of times the file was saved (docProps/core.xml <cp:revision>).
- Verifying independently
- Rename a copy of the .docx to .zip, extract it, and open word/settings.xml and docProps/app.xml in any text editor. The values in this report are there in plain sight.