Link to the 5 Questions in the Good Habits for Evidence- Check Your Knowledge Quiz

 

What’s on This Webpage:


Here’s the order of what will happen:

1.     You use this link to decide your answers for the Check Your Knowledge quiz for Good Habits for Evidence.

2.     When you have decided your answers, you click the Review button below this link to display the actual quiz.

3.     After you take the quiz, you need click on the results so you find out which questions you missed and you know what to look for next.
For example, the answers to one of the questions says “If you missed this question, look for the tips on Reliable Sources Only.”

4.     Also after you take the quiz, Blackboard displays two things:

a.     A link that has several links to resources to help students with different needs. The first link is to If You Missed One of the Questions on the Good Habits for Evidence.

b.    A quiz named Good Habits for Evidence Acknowledgement.  It is worth only .01 for answering True on the True-False question, but when you answer True, 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.)

 

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?

·         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

 

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 requirements each student did not do.

 

Student 1 wrote 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 requirement that Student 1 did not do is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your professor (or boss) accepts as reliable.  For example, unless your professor (or boss) 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. (Verify a fact = to confirm its accuracy with the reliable source.)

With professors (or bosses), you are in trouble if you guess incorrectly so verify before you write or speak.

 

c.

If a professor (or boss) 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 professors (or bosses), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your professor (or boss).

 

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.

 

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, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a professor (or boss) about the evidence.

 

Student 2 wrote 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 do is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your professor (or boss) accepts as reliable.
For example, unless your professor (or boss) 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. (Verify a fact = to confirm its accuracy with the reliable source.)

With professors (or bosses), you are in trouble if you guess incorrectly so verify before you write or speak.

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c.

If a professor (or boss) 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 professors (or bosses), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your professor (or boss).

 

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.

 

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, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a professor (or boss) about the evidence.

 

 

Student 3 wrote 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 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 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. This law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization. 

 

The requirement that Student 3 did not do is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your professor (or boss) accepts as reliable.
For example, unless your professor (or boss) 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. (Verify a fact = to confirm its accuracy with the reliable source.)

With professors (or bosses), you are in trouble if you guess incorrectly so verify before you write or speak.

 

c.

If a professor (or boss) 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 professors (or bosses), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your professor (or boss).

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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.

 

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, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a professor (or boss) about the evidence.

 

 

Student 4 wrote 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 requirement that Student 4 did not do is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your professor (or boss) accepts as reliable.
For example, unless your professor (or boss) 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. (Verify a fact = to confirm its accuracy with the reliable source.)

With professors (or bosses), you are in trouble if you guess incorrectly so verify before you write or speak.

 

c.

If a professor (or boss) 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 professors (or bosses), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your professor (or boss).

 

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.

*

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, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a professor (or boss) about the evidence.

 

 

 

Student 5 wrote 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 requirement that Student 5 did not do is:

 

*

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your professor (or boss) accepts as reliable.
For example, unless your professor (or boss) 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. (Verify a fact = to confirm its accuracy with the reliable source.)

With professors (or bosses), you are in trouble if you guess incorrectly so verify before you write or speak.

 

c.

If a professor (or boss) 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 professors (or bosses), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your professor (or boss).

 

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.

 

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, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a professor (or boss) about the evidence.

Text for the 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:

 

 

Requirement

When You Say Anything To—Or Write Anything For—a Professor (Or Boss), 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. (Verify a fact = to confirm its accuracy with the reliable source.) With professors (or bosses), you are in trouble if you guess incorrectly so 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.


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.

Factual Accuracy That Your Professor (or Boss) Can Verify Instantly

If a professor (or boss) 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 professors (or bosses), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your professor (or boss).

 

 

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.

 
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.

 

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.

 

 

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, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a professor (or boss) 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 professor (or boss) accepts as reliable.
For example, unless your boss tells you “Google this for me and copy anything you like from the Internet,” don’t.

 
In this course, the only sources are the textbook chosen by the History Department and the source
s provided at our Course Website. Do not use Internet websites, another textbook, or any other source—including your own memory.

 

What is the Goal for Writing?Think about it as teaching some section of history to your smart cousin.

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. You are also 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.

 

 

How Does Your Instructor Grade Your Writing?

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.

 

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

 

 

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Last Updated:

2014

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