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

CAUTION: the if you missed… link is much changed from this.

What’s on This Webpage:

What Is Finished and What Is Not Finished on This Webpage?

The first Good Habits for Evidence—Reliable sources Only—is finished.

The other four Good Habits for Evidence are missing two things:

· Links on this page in the sections If You Want More Tips

· Oral explanations to go along with the highlighted words
Possible Temporary solution: listen to the oral explanations for the one that is finished. Many of you will be able to use the highlighted words to figure out what is wrong with some of the students’ essays without the oral explanations.

Above Applies to the if you missed webpage

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What Is Not Finished on This Webpage?

Links to oral explanations for the 3 bullets below. Possible Temporary solution: listen to the oral explanations for the Good Habits for Evidence (Reliable Sources Only) that is finished . Many of you will be able to use the highlighted words to figure out what is wrong with the other students’ essays without the oral explanations.

Click on the specific link for what you want to hear:

· If you want to hear how to interpret the highlighting of words in the Student’s Essay

· If you want to understand how the student lacks this essential Good Habit for Evidence: Reliable Sources Only

· If you want this student’s work placed in the context of a job – Never practice a skill no one will ever want in the workplace and certainly never have as your habit for work actions that will destroy your reputation.

Why Is the Check Your Knowledge Quiz on Good Habits for Evidence in Your Interest—and Required?

If you want to hear what is written below (with some brief, additional words), click here.

Why Is It in Your Interest?

More and more students seem 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 students’ current grades (or their future success) because they do not know what professors and bosses will expect. My student surveys from last term suggested that this quiz and the resources with it might help. I am also providing resources on 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. What I learned a long time ago is that being smart is not enough—it is how you do your work that determines your success.

You may be surprised to have criteria for grading explained as a job issue. Talking about evidence and jobs causes students to think about the real world. To summarize this thought, if a company could not survive financially if it paid people for the kind of work shown in the student examples in the quiz, then perhaps you do not want to have habits that result in this kind of work. Choose the work habits for the person you want to be and the life you want to have.

Why Is It Required?

To make sure you are forewarned of how bosses and professors will consider evidence and to be sure there is a positive consequence for your investment in time:

· To be sure you are forewarned, before you can see a Unit Essay Exam or the Major Essay, you must complete the Acknowledgement quiz for Good Habits for Evidence.

· To be sure there is positive consequence for your investment of your time, completing those 2 quizzes before the due date means I will later enter 20 points extra credit in the grade Good Habits for Evidence_ec.

The syllabus covers specifics about how the Good Habits for Evidence determines whether you can do the next Unit Essay Exam or the Major Essay and whether you—temporarily—lose the 20 points extra credit.

What Are You Going to Do? New directions &needtochange EITHER oral because can’t make the review step in the olddirections OR to make it work

If you want to hear what is written below (with some brief, additional words), click here.

Tip: Keep this link open as you do the things in this folder.

Here’s what is going to happen and what you are to do:

1. You use the rest of this link to decide your answers for the Check Your Knowledge quiz for Good Habits for Evidence. There are tips on that below.

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.” Blackboard also displays:

· An optional file with definitions for terms used on the webpage (and also in the rubric)

· The link “Resources to Help You Succeed with Good Habits for Evidence”

· Required now: Good Habits for Evidence Acknowledgement Quiz

4. Look over the link “Resources to Help You Succeed with Good Habits for Evidence” 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.

5. Click on the Good Habits for Evidence Acknowledgement Quiz and answer True.

What I will do after that: When 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 sections on Essays and summarized in the section on extra credit.

What Are You Going to Do? Old directions

If you want to hear what is written below (with some brief, additional words), click here.

Tip: Keep this link open as you do the things in this folder.

Here’s what is going to happen and what you are to do:

1. You use the rest of this link to decide your answers for the Check Your Knowledge quiz for Good Habits for Evidence. There are tips on that below.

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

Blackboard displays the quiz.

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.” Blackboard also displays an optional link to definitions for terms used on the webpage and also in the rubric.

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: the link “Resources to Help You Succeed with Good Habits for Evidence” 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.

Background Information about the Student Examples and the Multiple Choice Answers

What Were the Instructions to the 5 Students?

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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?
The tips for the question said:
- How to find the pages on the “Peace Policy” because the term is not in the index
- The meaning of the word severalty (owning property as an individual, not a tribe)

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. In the same way, I will look at the source when I make my decision about your grade on your essay.

The first student example you look at will be slow to do, but the rest will go faster because they are all supposed to be using the same pages of the textbook. To save you some time, you will find a wide black line to the left of the parts of the textbook that most of these five students used.

What Are the 5 Possible Multiple Choice Answers? (One for Each Student Example)

The 5 possible multiple choice answers are the same for each student example, and you use each answer is used 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 your essays.

How Would I Do This If I Were You? <<<<< Tips from Your Teacher

First, I’d read carefully a, b, c, d, and e to see the possible answers.

Second take a scrap of paper and list:

Student 1

Student 2

Student 3

Student 4

Student 5

Third, I’d set up the textbook links to make it easy on me. Because I can think faster when I put things in time order and I’m used to time being show in left to right order, I’d bring up the one on Grant’s “Peace Policy” on the left and Dawes Severalty Act on the right.

I’d open the links to the textbook where I could see the 1^st page of each one, and I’d scroll the page so I could see the textbook where the wide black line is on the left.

Fourth, I’d read all of the five Student examples and see if any one of them looked easier and then I’d compare that one with the textbook pages.

Fifth, I’d make my best choice for each one and not worry about it. A Check Your Knowledge quiz is just measuring my brain today. If I get a perfect score, that’s fine. If I don’t, I have the resources in this class to figure this out or get help.

Making Your Decision about Which Multiple Choice Item Applies to Each Student’s Essay

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:

	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.

Text for the quiz fix

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 Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz.	Used to be checklist 3
4	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
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.

Student	Letter	Resource If You Missed the Question
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.
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.
3		If you missed this question, look for the heading Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz.
4		If you missed this question, look for the heading No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz.
5		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:

Why Is the Check Your Knowledge Quiz on Good Habits for Evidence in Your Interest? 1

What Are You Going to Do? 1

Background Information about the Student Examples and the Multiple Choice Answers 1

Making Your Decision about Which Multiple Choice Item Applies to Each Student’s Essay 2

Reliable Sources Only 6

Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source Before You Write 6

Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make 7

No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism 7

Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly 7

Making Your Decision about Which Multiple Choice Item Applies to Each Student’s Essay 10

Making Your Decision about Which Multiple Choice Item Applies to Each Student’s Essay 12

Reliable Sources Only

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 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

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

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

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

What’s Required for This Course

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

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

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

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

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

If You Want More Tips

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

Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

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

What’s Required for This Course

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

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

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

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

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

No Plagiarism or “Half-Copy” Plagiarism

Good Habit for Evidence in the World

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

What’s Required for This Course

In this course, you may:

§ Either write facts in your own words

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

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

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

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

SEE IF ALREADY WRITTEN 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.

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.

SEE IF ALREADY WRITTENHow 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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COPY AS A TABLE

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

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What the Corresponding Colors Mean in the Student Example and in the Source (the Textbook Pages)

Highlight, blue	Facts do exist for this in the source.
Highlight, pink	This word is from the source. A few words indicates passive reading; many words, plagiarism or “half-copy” plagiarism. Highlighting a single letter in pink (such as leave) means the student just used a different form (such as left) of a word from the source.
Highlight, yellow	This section of the source is misread or the student never read the required source. Highlighting a quotation mark (“) indicates the student changed the quotation without revealing the changes.
Highlight, green	Highlighting a quotation mark (“) indicates the student used the required quotation marks correctly.

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Making Your Decision about Which Multiple Choice Item Applies to Each Student’s Essay

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Making Your Decision about Which Multiple Choice Item Applies to Each Student’s Essay

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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