What
the Corresponding Colors Mean in the Student Example and in the Source (the
Textbook Pages)
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Highlight, blue |
Facts
do exist for this in the source. |
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Highlight, pink (a reddish one on pages) |
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. |
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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. |
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Highlight, green |
Highlighting
a quotation mark (“)
indicates the student used the required quotation marks correctly. |
Student 3—How the Student Changed Quotations (and 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.” |
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The Source on the Peace Policy If you want to see the whole 1st page, click here. If you want to see the whole 2nd page (showing what the student said that was actually supported by the required source), click here The yellow highlight on the word Seneca shows what the student left out
of the quotation, without revealing those changes to the reader. What the
student left out—the word Seneca,
the name of a tribe—was significant and the student did not seem to notice
that. Why did the word Seneca matter? Because it showed that
Grant involved “reformers” and a Native American as commissioner.
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The Source on the Dawes Severalty Act If you want to see the whole page, click here. The yellow highlight shows
what the student changed in the quotation—without revealing those changes to
the reader. Those changes were: ·
The student did
not notice the word farm. The Act divided
the Native Americans’ lands into “160-acre farms” forcing Native Americans to
shift from hunting to farming (something hard for experienced farmers with
equipment to do on the plains and impossible for impoverished hunters to do). ·
The student did
not notice the quantity of 160, not
60. The Homestead Act in the 1860s started the pattern of land allotments of
160 acres for farming for whites (a quantity that was too small even for
experienced farmers to succeed with on the plains). |
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As for the grade, both quotations are inaccurate and are not placed in context. The factual errors slide the grade to the “F” Paper Criteria column of the rubric.
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Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014 |
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2014 |
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