Link to the 5 Questions in the Good Habits for Evidence- Check Your Knowledge Quiz |
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I am doing this because I am finding more and more students who do not know these basic Good Habits for Evidence. For example, over 65% of my students surveyed since 2011 did not know they needed to be factually accurate or use only a reliable source when writing an essay about something that is real (such as history, biology, or business). These Good Habits for Evidence apply everywhere, including on a job, and they have been standards for evidence in style guides for research (such as MLA and the Chicago Manual of Style) consistently. I do not think it is fair to hurt people’s grades when they do not know what bosses and professors will expect.
My student surveys from last term suggested that this quiz and the links described might help. I do not want negatives to happen to students just because they do not know these basics. I am also providing how I do things: If you already are succeeding with evidence, then keeping doing that; if you are not, then how I do things may help choose the habits you want for your future.
One last thing. You may be surprised to have evaluation of essays based on jobs and what bosses will do. I am doing it because it causes students to think about the real world. To summarize this thought, if a company could not survive financially if it paid people for this kind of work, then perhaps you do not want to keep doing this kind of work. Choose the work habits for the person you want to be and the life you want to have.
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Here’s what is going to happen and what you are to do:
1. You use this link to decide your answers for the Check Your Knowledge quiz for Good Habits for Evidence.
2. Once you have decided your answers, click the Review button below this link to display the actual quiz.
Blackboard displays the quiz.
3. After
you submit the quiz but before you do anything else, look at the results of the
quiz so you know a) what you missed and b) what you need to use next.
For example, you might see these words in the feedback section of a question: If
you missed this question, look for the heading Reliable Sources Only in the link that Blackboard
displays below this quiz.
After you leave the quiz, Blackboard displays the link If You Missed One of the Questions.
4. After you have used the link If You Missed One of the Questions, click the Review button below it.
Blackboard then displays two things: a link and an acknowledgement quiz.
5. Look over the link so you know the kinds of resources that are available to help students with different needs. – You will want to come back to these resources when you start your preparation for your Unit 1 Essays.
6. Click
on the Good Habits for Evidence Acknowledgement Quiz and answer True.
What I will do after that: If you answer True, then I will later enter 20 points extra credit in Good Habits for Evidence_ec. Keeping that 20 points is conditional on your doing what is explained in the Syllabus in the section on extra credit. (It is before the Course Schedule.)
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All
5 students in the group below were supposed:
·
To
answer the same question: Using
content from the required reading, what do Grant’s “Peace Policy” and Dawes
Severalty Act reveal about what happens to Native Americans from about 1868 to
about 1890?
FYI: This question
is typical of all of the questions asked in this course.
·
To use
the same source: Click on the links
for what our textbook says about Grant’s “Peace Policy” and about the Dawes Severalty Act. – You must look at the source (at the
evidence for the essay) as you make your decision about each student example.
(I will look at the source when I make my decision about your grade on your
essay.)
The 5 possible multiple choice answers are
the same for each student example, and you use each only one time. Each student
example and each multiple choice answer covers one of the 5 Good Habits for
Evidence that:
·
You will
use in this course in writing your essays.
·
I will
use in grading them.
Compare the source on Grant’s “Peace Policy”
and Dawes Severalty Act with each of the student’s answers. Decide which of the
5 basic good habits for evidence each student did not do. Click on the links for what our textbook says about Grant’s “Peace Policy” and about the Dawes Severalty Act. You must look at the source (at the
evidence for the essay) as you make your decision.
Student 1 wrote this answer: With Grant’s “Peace Policy,” reservations were created for Native Americans. If they accepted the church, the Native Americans would be left alone. If resistance came up, the army would be sent to stay on the reservations. “To whites, the peace policy was humane. For native Americans, it was another in the long series of white efforts to undermine their way of life.” The Dawes Severalty Act was passed in 1887. It “authorized the president to survey Native American reservations and divide them into 160-acre farms.” Reformers and westerners viewed the law differently. “For the reformers, this law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization; for the western settlers, it made Indian land available.” The law actually “undermined the tribal culture” and “helped allow whites to start mining and cattle ranching.” The good habit for evidence that Student 1 did not follow is: |
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a. |
For your
source of facts, use only sources
your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss
(or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything
you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
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b. |
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. |
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c. |
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). |
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d. |
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. |
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e. |
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. |
Student 2 wrote this answer: Grant's Peace Policy helps the Native Americans get on their own feet to work for living and freedom. Also, lets their children get educated. The Grant's Peace Policy was to take justice to its right place. The Dawes Severalty Act lets Native Americans to have land to build a home for them to live in. Also, the act lets Native Americans have the rights to pick where they want to live. This also includes water, electricity. But the Dawes Severalty Act limits how much the Native Americans can have of land, water, and electricity, and get paid. The requirement that Student 2 did not follow is: |
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a. |
For your
source of facts, use only sources
your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss
(or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything
you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
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b. |
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. |
|
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c. |
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). |
|
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d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
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Student 3 wrote this answer: The Native Americans’ hunting
ground grew less and less. President Grant “appointed Ely Parker commissioner
of Indian Affairs.” The herds of the buffalo also grew smaller. The Dawes
Severalty act “authorized the president to survey the Native American
reservation and divide by 60 acres.” The good habit for evidence that Student 3
did not follow is: |
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a. |
For your
source of facts, use only sources
your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss
(or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything
you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
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c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
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Student 4 wrote this answer: The opening of the West to railroads and the spread of farmers onto the Great Plains meant that Native Americans had to fight for what they had considered theirs, and found their hunting grounds and tribal domains under siege. A majority of western settlers advocated removal or extermination of the Indian tribes. Grant's administration pursued what became known as the “peace policy.” Specific land was assigned to be Indian reservations. If the Indians accepted the presence of church officials on the reservations, the government left them alone. Otherwise, the army would see to it that Indians stayed on the reservations. To whites, the peace policy was humane. For Native Americans, it was another in the long series of white efforts to undermine their way of life. In 1887, The Dawes Severalty Act was passed by Congress. The law authorized the president to survey Native American reservations and divide them into 160-acre farms. This land could not be sold or leased for 25 years. Any surplus land could be bought by whites. For the reformers, this law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization. The good habit for evidence that Student 4 did not follow is: |
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a. |
For your
source of facts, use only sources
your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss
(or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything
you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
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Student 5 wrote this answer: Grant's goal of the "peace policy" was to minimize military conflict with the Indians. The Indians were to stay on reservations where they would receive government subsidies and training supervised by religious denominations. Indians were no longer allowed to engage in raids or end war parties off the reservations. The Army's job was to force them back. Native Americans were increasingly forced to live on reservations. Grant appointed his aide General Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The Grant administration focused on well-meaning goals of placing "good men" in positions of influence such as Quakers as US Indian agents to various posts throughout the nation. On the other hand, the Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and to divide it into 160-acre plots for individual Indians to assimilate them. The act also provided that the government would open the lands up for settlement by non-Indians. The good habit for evidence that Student 5 did not follow is: |
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a. |
For your
source of facts, use only sources
your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss
(or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything
you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
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Text for the quiz
Student
1 |
If you missed this question, look for the heading Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source Before You Write in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz |
Used to be checklist 4 |
2 |
If you missed this question, look for the heading Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz |
Used to be checklist 5 |
3 |
If you missed this question, look for the heading No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz |
Used to be checklist 2 |
4 |
If you missed this question, look for the heading Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz |
Used to be checklist 3 |
5 |
If you
missed this question, look for the heading Reliable Sources Only in the
link that Blackboard displays below this quiz. |
Used to
be checklist 1 |
If you missed this question, look for the heading Reliable Sources Only in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz.
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:
If
you missed this question, click to hear 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 5 did not follow.
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. |
If You Want More Tips |
If you want more tips on this
Good Habit for Evidence, click here. – Note: I have these tips written and will
add the link in shortly |
If you missed this question, click to hear 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 1 did not
follow.
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.
§
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. |
If You Want More Tips |
If you want more tips on this
Good Habit for Evidence, click here. – Note: I have these tips written and will
add the link in shortly |
If
you missed this question, click to hear 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 |
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. ·
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. |
If You Want
More Tips |
If you want more tips on this Good Habit for Evidence,
click here. – Note: I have these tips written and will add the link in
shortly |
If
you missed this question, click to hear 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 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). |
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 |
If
you missed this question, click to hear 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 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 |
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 paraphrasing the textbook
. You do not, therefore, need to repeat every
fact or word in the textbook.
not showing your personal
writing style while stating your feelings or your opinions.
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.
You will succeed in these assignments if you do
these things:
§
If you read carefully
and work to understand what happened and ask if you need help.
§
If you figure out
what essential facts that you would teach your cousin.
§
If you figure how
you could organize those facts as simply and as accurately as you can.
§
If you write in a
common sense way as though you are teaching your cousin history that he or she
needs to understand.
Because the goal of writing is to help you learn our
nation’s history and the priority is for you to be accurate, I grade your
writing by comparing what you wrote side by side with the facts in the
textbook. With essays submitted, I use a method that lets me quickly identify
all of the submissions where the students wrote on the same question.
1. I download those submissions, print them, and place
side by side:
§
On the left, the
textbook opened to the probable section or sections students should have
used. §
On the right,
the submissions of students’ papers on that question. |
2. I use the Evidence Checklist/Rubric and its 2-letter
abbreviations for feedback (shown below) and grade each student’s submissions
one by one.
3. If there are multiple possible questions, I then
repeat the steps above with the next question.
With the two essays for the Unit exams, I grade one of
the questions using the method above. Unless I find problems such as factual
errors in that essay, I grade the other one without the textbook side by side
with your paper—a quicker method.
th the e
Requirement |
When You Say Anything To—Or Write Anything For—a Boss
(or professor), Do These Things |
Factual Accuracy That You
Verify with the Reliable Source Before You Write |
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. 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.
§
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. |
Factual Accuracy That Is
Verifiable for Every Statement You Make |
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). 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. ·
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. |
No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy”
Plagiarism |
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. 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). |
Quotation Changes Revealed
Clearly |
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.
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. |
Reliable Sources Only |
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. |
Compare the source on Grant’s “Peace Policy”
and Dawes Severalty Act with each of the student’s answers. Decide which of the
5 basic good habits for evidence each student did not do.
Student 1 wrote this answer: With Grant’s “Peace Policy,” reservations were created for
Native Americans. If
they accepted the church, the Native Americans would be left alone. If
resistance came up, the army
would be sent to stay on the reservations. “To whites, the peace policy was humane. For
native Americans, it was another in the long series of white efforts to
undermine their way of life.”
The Dawes Severalty Act was passed in 1887. It “authorized the president to survey Native
American reservations and divide them into 160-acre farms.” Reformers and
westerners viewed the law differently. “For the reformers, this law pushed Native
Americans toward white civilization; for the western settlers, it made Indian
land available.” The law actually “undermined the tribal culture” and “helped allow whites to start mining and cattle ranching.” The good habit for evidence that Student 1 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
* |
b. |
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. |
|
c. |
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). |
|
d. |
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. |
|
e. |
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. |
Student 2 wrote this answer: Grant's Peace Policy helps the Native Americans get on
their own feet to work
for living and freedom.
Also, lets their children
get educated. The Grant's Peace Policy was to take justice to its right place.
The Dawes Severalty Act lets Native Americans to have land to build a home for them to live in.
Also, the act lets Native Americans have the rights to pick where they want to live. This
also includes water,
electricity. But the Dawes Severalty Act limits how much the Native Americans
can have of land, water, and electricity, and get paid. The requirement that Student 2 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
* |
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
|
Student 3 wrote this answer: The Native Americans’ hunting ground grew less and less.
President Grant “appointed
Ely Parker commissioner
of Indian Affairs.”
The herds of the buffalo also grew smaller. The Dawes Severalty act “authorized the
president to survey the Native American reservation and divide by 60 acres.” The good habit for evidence that Student 3 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
* |
e. |
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. |
|
Student 4 wrote this answer: The opening of
the West to railroads and the spread of farmers onto the Great Plains meant
that Native Americans had to fight for what they had considered theirs, and found their hunting grounds
and tribal domains under siege. A majority of western settlers advocated removal or extermination
of the Indian tribes. Grant's administration pursued what became
known as the “peace policy.” Specific land was assigned to be Indian
reservations. If the
Indians accepted the presence of church officials on the reservations, the
government left
them alone.
Otherwise, the army
would see to it
that Indians stayed on
the reservations. To
whites, the peace policy was humane. For Native Americans, it was another in the long
series of white efforts to undermine their way of life. In 1887, The
Dawes Severalty Act was passed
by Congress. The
law authorized the
president to survey Native American reservations and divide them into 160-acre
farms. This land
could not be sold
or leased for 25 years. Any surplus land
could be bought by whites.
For the reformers, this
law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization. The good habit for evidence that Student 4 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
* |
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
|
Student 5 wrote this answer: Grant's goal of the
"peace policy" was to minimize military conflict with the Indians.
The Indians were to stay on reservations where they would receive government
subsidies and training supervised by religious denominations. Indians were no
longer allowed to engage in raids or end war parties off the reservations.
The Army's job was to force them back. Native Americans were increasingly
forced to live on reservations. Grant appointed his aide
General Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The Grant administration focused on well-meaning goals of placing "good
men" in positions of influence such as Quakers
as US Indian agents to various posts throughout the nation. On the other hand, the Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the
President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and to
divide it into 160-acre plots for individual Indians to assimilate them. The
act also provided that the government would open the lands up for settlement
by non-Indians. The good habit for evidence that Student 5 did not follow is: |
* |
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
|
Compare the source on Grant’s “Peace Policy”
and Dawes Severalty Act with each of the student’s answers. Decide which of the
5 basic good habits for evidence each student did not do.
Student 1 wrote this answer: With Grant’s “Peace Policy,” reservations were created for
Native Americans. If they accepted the church, the Native Americans would be
left alone. If resistance came up, the army would be sent to stay on the
reservations. “To whites, the peace policy was humane. For native Americans,
it was another in the long series of white efforts to undermine their way of
life.” The Dawes Severalty Act was passed in 1887. It “authorized the
president to survey Native American reservations and divide them into
160-acre farms.” Reformers and westerners viewed the law differently. “For
the reformers, this law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization;
for the western settlers, it made Indian land available.” The law actually
“undermined the tribal culture” and “helped allow whites to start mining and
cattle ranching.” The good habit for evidence that Student 1 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
* |
b. |
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. |
|
c. |
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). |
|
d. |
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. |
|
e. |
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. |
Student 2 wrote this answer: Grant's Peace Policy helps the Native Americans get on
their own feet to work for living and freedom. Also, lets their children get
educated. The Grant's Peace Policy was to take justice to its right place.
The Dawes Severalty Act lets Native Americans to have land to build a home
for them to live in. Also, the act lets Native Americans have the rights to
pick where they want to live. This also includes water, electricity. But the
Dawes Severalty Act limits how much the Native Americans can have of land,
water, and electricity, and get paid. The requirement that Student 2 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
* |
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
|
Student 3 wrote this answer: The Native Americans’ hunting ground grew less and less.
President Grant “appointed Ely Parker commissioner of Indian Affairs.” The
herds of the buffalo also grew smaller. The Dawes Severalty act “authorized
the president to survey the Native American reservation and divide by 60
acres.” The good habit for evidence that Student 3 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
* |
e. |
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. |
|
Student 4 wrote this answer: The opening of the West to railroads and the spread of
farmers onto the Great Plains meant that Native Americans had to fight for
what they had considered theirs, and found their hunting grounds and tribal
domains under siege. A majority of western settlers advocated removal or extermination
of the Indian tribes. Grant's administration pursued what became known
as the “peace policy.” Specific land was assigned to be Indian reservations.
If the Indians accepted the presence of church officials on the reservations,
the government left them alone. Otherwise, the army would see to it that
Indians stayed on the reservations. To whites, the peace policy was humane.
For Native Americans, it was another in the long series of white efforts to
undermine their way of life. In 1887, The Dawes Severalty Act was passed by
Congress. The law authorized the president to survey Native American
reservations and divide them into 160-acre farms. This land could not be sold
or leased for 25 years. Any surplus land could be bought by whites. For the
reformers, this law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization. The good habit for evidence that Student 4 did not follow is: |
|
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
* |
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
|
Student 5 wrote this answer: Grant's goal of the
"peace policy" was to minimize military conflict with the Indians.
The Indians were to stay on reservations where they would receive government
subsidies and training supervised by religious denominations. Indians were no
longer allowed to engage in raids or end war parties off the reservations.
The Army's job was to force them back. Native Americans were increasingly
forced to live on reservations. Grant appointed his aide
General Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The Grant administration focused on well-meaning goals of placing "good
men" in positions of influence such as Quakers
as US Indian agents to various posts throughout the nation. On the other hand, the Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the
President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and to
divide it into 160-acre plots for individual Indians to assimilate them. The
act also provided that the government would open the lands up for settlement
by non-Indians. The good habit for evidence that Student 5 did not follow is: |
* |
a. |
For
your source of facts, use only
sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless
your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy
anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t. |
|
|
b. |
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. |
|
|
c. |
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). |
|
|
d. |
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. |
|
|
e. |
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. |
|
Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014 |
2014 |
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