If You Missed a Question on the Good Habits for Evidence- Check Your Knowledge Quiz, What You Need to Look At    

 

What’s on This Webpage:

Finding the Amount of Information You Want

If You Are Unsure of the Meaning of Some Words

The 5 Good Habits for Evidence (Also Used in Grading All Essays)

Reliable Sources Only

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

Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make

No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism

Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly

 

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Finding the Amount of Information You Want

This webpage covers the 5 things used in grading your evidence about history. For each of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence, you have these resources:

·         Immediately under the name of the Good Habit for Evidence, a link to the question you answered with color-coded highlights to show what the student did incorrectly with the source

·         A table that repeats the words in the answer you saw in the quiz, that covers “What’s Required for This Course,” and—if you want more tips or supporting information—a link for that

 

If you just want to look at the absolute minimum, read carefully the part of the table with the label “What’s Required for This Course” for each of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence.

A supportive caution: If even the minimum seems too much for you, talk to me and let me help you. I will be glad to. Why is it essential for you to get these Good Habits for Evidence straight? There is no company that would want to pay you for what those student examples showed as their way of working. If you had to make a personal decision that could determine your money, your health, or the safety of those you care about, you need to make that decision using the Good Habits for Evidence. It is not just about learning history (although that matters), but also about your future.

If You Are Unsure of the Meaning of Some Words

The link at the bottom of this folder provides definitions of the words fact, evidence, assume, opinion, cherry pick, and embellish. These words are used on this webpage and also in the rubric for grading any essay.

 

 

What Is the Goal for Writing in This Course? – Think about it as teaching some part of history to your smart cousin.

What Is Not the Goal?

With something that people talk about in many ways, sometimes it helps to state what is not the goal. With writing in this course, you:

·         Are not summarizing or not paraphrasing the textbook.

·         Do not need to repeat every fact or word in the textbook.

·         Are not showing your personal writing style while stating your feelings or your opinions or your assumptions.

 

 

What Is the Goal?

Instead, in this course, the goal of all writing assignments is for you to do activities that help you learn the history of our nation. One of the most powerful ways to learn something is to try to teach it so the goal is for you to pretend to teach another person—such as your smart cousin.

 

That’s a multi-step skill—one skill that is also useful for most jobs you may do. You do 4 things:

1.     Read carefully the required content (and I tell you what you need to read)

2.     Understand that content

3.     Choose carefully what anyone—such as your smart cousin—needs to learn

4.     Teach that content in a common sense, practical way


Why am I using the example of your smart cousin as the person you will teach?

·         You are probably comfortable with your cousin.

·         In helping your smart cousin, you will spend:
- More time trying to help your cousin learn the content
- Less time trying to say it in fancy words

 

 

 

Reliable Sources Only

What’s a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors

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.

 

If You Want Tips on How to Develop the Good Habit of Using Reliable Sources Only

If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence, click here  http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_GHforE_HOW_to_Work_ReliableSourcesONLY.htm

 

If you think that professors (and bosses) can’t recognize that you have used other sources (and perhaps even copied other sources’ words), click here for the difference that requiring a specific source makes.  Read the orange box at the bottom of the link. . http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_Good_Habits_For_Evidence_Student5_colorcoded.htm

 

Quiz

In this course, you may use these sources:

a. The textbook chosen by the History Department

b. Sources your instructor provides

c. Internet websites developed by reliable historical associations

d. Only a and b

e. All of the above

 

d.

If you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section for this Good Habit.

 

 

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

What’s a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors

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 or their actions, do not include only one as though the other did not occur.

 

If You Want Tips on How to Develop the Good Habit of Factual Accuracy By Verifying with the Reliable Source Before You Write

If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence, click here.

 http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_GHforE_HOW_to_Build_Factual_Accuracy_By_Verifying_With_Reliable_Source.htm

 

If you think that professors (and bosses) can’t recognize that you are factually inaccurate, click here for the difference that requiring a specific source makes. Read the orange box at the bottom of the link. http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_Good_Habits_For_Evidence_Student5_colorcoded.htm

 

Quiz

In this course, you are to:

a. Verify every fact that you write by using the required, reliable source.

b. Show your personal writing style and interest in history by using facts from the sourcec.

 

a.

If you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section for this Good Habit.

 

 

 

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What’s a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors

 

 

What’s Required for This Course

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If You Want Tips on How to Develop the Good Habit of <>

If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence, http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_GHforE_HOW_to_Work_ReliableSourcesONLY.htm

 

Quiz

In this course, you may :

a.

b.

c.

d. Only a and b

e. All of the above

 

d.

If you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section for this Good Habit.

 

 

 

The links from the Rubric

ADD to each 1 the link to the preventions FOR EACH ONE

 

 For reliable sources and for not plagiarized work http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_Good_Habits_For_Evidence_Student5_colorcoded.htm

 

For Factual Accuracy

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Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make<>

What’s a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors

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—one that the boss (or professor) considers reliable

·          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 written assignments, you must write according to the instructions and that includes citations that show exactly (a specific page) where each fact is from. You must cite both facts that are in the author’s exact words (quotations) and facts written in your own words.

 

The style that you use for that 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 standard.
Caution: APA requires citations only for quotations, but for written assignments in this course you must provide citations for facts as quotations and facts written in your own words.

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

 

A frequently asked question: If you have a couple of sentences from the same page of the source, then you only cite after the last sentence.

 

If You Want Tips on How to Develop the Good Habit of <>

If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence, click here

http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_GHforE_HOW_to_Succeed_Factual_AccuracyThatIsVerifiableForEveryStatementYouMake.htm

 

Quiz

In this course, you may :

a.

b.

c.

d. Only a and b

e. All of the above

 

d.

If you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section for this Good Habit.

 

 

 

If you missed this question, click for a brief explanation and to see highlighted words in both the student’s essay and the source so you can understand why this student’s essay reveals a Good Habit for Evidence that Student 2 did not follow.

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

 

 

What’s Required for This Course

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If You Want More Tips

If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence, click here

 

No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism

If you missed this question, click for a brief explanation and to see highlighted words in both the student’s essay and the source so you can understand why this student’s essay reveals a Good Habit for Evidence that Student 4 did not follow.

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).

 

Why I make a big deal about “half-copy” plagiarism? Click here because the reason is in your interests and may surprise you.

If You Want More Tips

If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence, click here. This link takes you to the same tips for Quotation Changes Reveal Clearly because they have the same background information

 

Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly

If you missed this question, click for a brief explanation and to see highlighted words in both the student’s essay and the source so you can understand why this student’s essay reveals a Good Habit for Evidence that Student 3 did not follow.

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.

If You Want More Tips

If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence, click here. This link takes you to the same tips for No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism because they have the same background information

 

 

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014

 

 

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Last Updated:

2014

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