What to Do with the Feedback for the History Changes Essay

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Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source Before You Write 1

Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make 1

No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism 2

Reliable Sources Only

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Good Habit for Evidence in the World

For your source of facts, use only sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss tells you “Google this for me and copy anything you like from the Internet,” don’t.

What’s Required for This Course

In this course, the only sources are:

1. The textbook chosen by the History Department

2. The sources provided within our Course Website.

Do not use:

· Other Internet websites

· Another textbook

· Any other source—including other people or your own memory.

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Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source Before You Write

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

You must use reliable sources to verify everything that you write or say. To verify a fact means to confirm that the reliable source specifically states that fact (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you will be in trouble if you are incorrect so never guess and instead verify before you write or speak.

What’s Required for This Course

In this course, if you cannot verify the fact, do not write it and do not assume that the source agrees with you. If you are certain something is true and you cannot find it clearly in our sources, ask me for help.

In this course, you also must select facts that you write to reveal accurately the facts that the author presented. You cannot misuse the source. Examples:

§ If a question that you have to answer is about something specific (such as a time, type of person, or region), verify that the source is about that specific thing.

§ If the source covers facts, do not cherry pick or embellish them.

§ If the source covers facts about two or more sides, positions, individuals, or groups, do not include only one as though the other did not occur.

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Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

If a boss (or professor) asks you for the proof of something that you said or wrote, you must be able to state the name of the reliable source and exactly where (a specific page) in that source that each fact came from (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage on that page would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your boss (or professor).

What’s Required for This Course

In this course with Exam Essays, you do not need to provide citations (the specific page number from our textbook where a fact is located) unless I cannot recognize where the fact came from. If I cannot recognize the fact, I will ask for citations.
Caution: If I ask you for citations, it is because I could not find the fact as you said it on any of the textbook pages that specifically cover the question. To use the statement above, if a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage on that page would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will I. To double-check your work to be sure each fact is there, I recommend this tip that I call Fact to Finger.

In this course with the Major Essay, you must write according to the instructions and that includes citations that show exactly where (a specific page) for each fact. The style for citation may vary:

· If you have had a college course so you are trained fully in a specific standard (such as MLA, APA, or the Chicago Manual of Style), you may use that.

· If you have not yet had a course, you may use a very simple method provided as an additional instruction.

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No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

If you use words (even phrases) created by another person, then follow standards for using quotation marks (“”) to reveal clearly to your reader what words you created and what words the author created. — This is a requirement in courses, and in some jobs failure to do this is a firing offense.

What’s Required for This Course

In this course, you may:

§ Either write facts in your own words

§ Or you may use exact sentences or phrases from the textbook placed within quotation marks according to the specific rules for quotation marks (“”) to reveal ownership that are covered in The Bedford Handbook

In this course, you may not copy an author’s phrases without quotation marks. You also may not replace a few words in an author’s sentence. Both are what The Bedford Handbook calls “half-copy” plagiarism (page 692).

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Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

If you use quotation marks (“”) to reveal words created by another person but you change those words, then carefully reveal those changes by following standards for using quotation marks (“”), ellipses (…), and/or square brackets ([ ]). This may not be just a punctuation error. — Instead, by your changes, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a boss (or professor) about the evidence.

What’s Required for This Course

In this course, if you use another’s words, you must be sure either not to change them or—if you change them—to follow the specific rules in The Bedford Handbook to reveal those changes to the reader.

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WCJC Department:	History – Dr. Bibus
Contact Information:	281.239.1577 or bibusc@wcjc.edu
Last Updated:	2014
WCJC Home:	http://www.wcjc.edu/