How Bosses, Upper Level Profs Who Can Write You a Reference, This Prof, and Your Colleagues in the Class Can Catch You Messing Up Evidence and Plagiarizing

A Brief Guess about Why Instructors Since the 1980s Had to Work Harder to Catch Errors in Evidence and Plagiarism.. 1

Experts and the 5 Good Habits for Evidence. 1

Reminder about Writing and Points in a History Class. 1

The 2-Part Method- What Your Professor Requires of You. 1

The 2-Part Method- What Your Professor Requires of Herself and of any Student Doing a Peer Review of Another Student’s Work. 1

The 2-Part Method- The Professor Can Easily Recognize and Prove If You Use a Source Other Than the Required Sources. 1

The 2-Part Method- The Professor Can Easily Recognize and Prove If You Did “Half-Copy” Plagiarism, Plagiarized, or Did “Patchwriting”. 1

The 2-Part Method- What If You Think Your Professor Is Wrong?. 1

The 2-Part Method- What Does It Mean to Your Future?. 1

The 2-Part Method- What Should You Start to Do to Be the Expert You Want to Be. 1

 

A Brief Guess about Why Instructors Since the 1980s Had to Work Harder to Catch Errors in Evidence and Plagiarism

Before approximately the late 1980s, professors graded on evidence and caught plagiarism without having to work at it. What was different then was there were:

·         Comparatively few sources in local libraries to copy/read from

·         No Internet to easily copy from

·         Segregation of smartest women in public school teaching—Before the 1970s and 1980s, those who wanted to think about their disciplines had few choices but to teach in the public high school.

·         And there are more if you want to hear them

 

Experts and the 5 Good Habits for Evidence

http://www.cjbibus.com/Getting_Started_Good_Habits_for_Evidence_Would_anyone_pay_you_for_this_skill.htm

Reminder about Writing and Points in a History Class.

The History Department requires that all history courses require 25% of the course grade be for written assignments. With a 1000-point course like this one, that mean writing assignments consist of 250 points. The math shows (and there is a link in the Course Plan to help you realize this), you must try to do writing assignments if you want to make even a C. If this were a True False question, the answer would be True.

 

The 2-Part Method- What Your Professor Requires of You

1.       Your professor requires that you:

a.       Use only the required textbook

b.      Use only the required primaries. They are all provided in the course.

c.       Cite from those required sources every fact that you write for any writing assignment whether the fact is in your own words or in the author’s words (a quotation).

d.      If you use the author’s words, use quotation marks correctly and also cite.

e.      Read and write carefully—and without exaggeration and without unsupported conclusions.

f.        Carefully select facts for your answer to match the question.

g.       Proof carefully.

h.      *All of the listed items

 

The 2-Part Method- What Your Professor Requires of Herself and of any Student Doing a Peer Review of Another Student’s Work

2.       Your professor takes a long time to grade because she grades every written assignment that every student does side-by-side with the page of the textbook or the page from the primary that the student cited.

  1. *True
  2. False

 

The 2-Part Method- The Professor Can Easily Recognize and Prove If You Use a Source Other Than the Required Sources

3.       Question 1 and Question 2 together mean that not only can the professor easily recognize if you used a source other than the required ones, but also she can quickly prove that you did.

  1. *True
  2. False

 

General Tip: To see the examples below, hover your mouse over the link and choose the option to open in a new tab or window.

 

When you compare the paper with the source, everything becomes obvious.

When you compare the paper (on the left) and the source (on the right) on the yellow issue, the meaning for mercantilism is different. I entered “trade generates wealth,” Google displayed—as I expected—websites using that phrase.

Tip: Your browser may not show the right part of the illustration. If it does not, click here to see both left and right parts.  (UIL:

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One major event that lead to the American Revolution was the sugar act. The British government had a policy known as Mercantilism which is idea that trade generates wealth, this policy lead the British government to form new ideas on how to enhance their treasury. (Essentials p,112) This was when the Sugar act came to be. This act imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses. (Essentials p, 122) The British Government also came up with the Stamp act which imposed all American colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. (Essentials p, 125) These new policies angered the colonists to the point were they responded violently and added to the big conflict of the American Revolution. (Essentials p, 125)

112

 

When you compare the paper (above) and the source (below) on the grey issue, you find nothing about six-pence so the student was using something other than the required reliable sources.

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This act imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses. (Essentials p, 122)

 

 

Tip: If you read the textbook on right part, you will see nothing about 6 pence. Further, the textbook said that Sugar Act “cuts the import tax.”

122

 

 

The 2-Part Method- The Professor Can Easily Recognize and Prove If You Did “Half-Copy” Plagiarism, Plagiarized, or Did “Patchwriting”

4.       Question 1 and Question 2 together mean that the professor can easily recognize and quickly prove if you copied the words from our required sources without quotation marks. According to standard rules for evidence, your doing that means you plagiarized or, at a minimum, did what the Bedford Handbook calls “half-copy” plagiarism.

  1. *True
  2. False

 

When you compare the paper with the source, everything becomes obvious. Background: lovely student who was trying to replace her habit of just passively moving words around. She said her English teacher said it was right. I knew her English teacher so I asked the English teacher who said the work was “half-copy” plagiarism.”  When I put the student’s paper side-by-side with the source, the English stated this was “half-copy” plagiarism. Look at the resources for what makes work “half-copy” plagiarism.

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The paper included several sections of paraphrased text that were awkward, but in the middle of it was this phrase:

work of spinning, sewing, and weaving

to work spinning, sewing, and weaving – she could have avoid “half-copy” plagiarism if she had not written it or if she had used only 1 example or if she had quoted it exactly “spinning, weavng, or sewing.”

 Caution: The fundamental problem with “half-copy” plagiarism is not a little bit of cheating but a lot of not paying attention and just copying words. Who would pay you for that.

 

The 2-Part Method- What If You Think Your Professor Is Wrong?

I have been wrong before and the odds say I will be wrong again. Example: I had a student who was looking a different section of the page than I was looking at. There was a statement there that an honorable and careful student could thought meant what the student.

·         Because the student could see my evidence, he could tell that I was not referring to the section he had read.

·         Because the student could provide contrary evidence by showing me that section, I could tell that he had evidence for what he said.

What do you do if you think my evidence is wrong? First, go look at my evidence by comparing simultaneously for each citation:

·         Your paper with your citation and with my notes in the left margin

·         Your source (from those allowed) turned to the exact page you said you were using – and you do that until you check each statement you made and the exact page of the source. t

If you are still sure I am wrong, just see me. I want accuracy and truth—even if it means I was in error. If you just want help or an explanation, just see me. I am glad to help each on of you.

The 2-Part Method- What Does It Mean to Your Future?

Think about this for a second and look slowly at the table below. The experts (the boss who pays you or the prof who gives you a reference to help you get a job) can help you. They will notice—without having to work at it—if you do not use evidence accurately or if you just copy. On the other hand, if you use my 2-part method plus some tips I recommend in Good Habits for Evidence tutorial to learn to work, you should be starting your preparation:

·         To be your own expert and to be your own problem-solver

·         To be worth an expert’s pay. – To quote a former boss (and fortunately she was not talking about me that day), you are a problem-solver or you are a problem.

 

 

If you wrote or spoke and did not use the Good Habits for Evidence listed below

Would a boss who pays you who is expert in the business notice?

Would an upper-level professor who can write a letter of reference for you and who is expert in the discipline notice?

Would a professor using my method notice?

Will you notice if you use my method with peer review?

Would a prof expert in composition

(But not history) notice?

Did not use reliable source  (Good Habits for Evidence 1)

Probably Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Probably Not

Did not use a source page that fits the question (Good Habits for Evidence 2)

Probably Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Probably Not

Did not proof every rigorously (Good Habits for Evidence 3)

Possibly Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Probably Not

Did plagiarized or “half-copy” plagiarized (Good Habits for Evidence 4)

Possibly Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Probably Not

Changed the meaning of the author or made the author look incompetent with language (Good Habits for Evidence 5)

Probably Yes on the meaning and probably No on the language

Yes

Yes

Yes

Probably No on the meaning and probably Yes on the language

 

The 2-Part Method- What Should You Start to Do to Be the Expert You Want to Be

5.       When you do any written assignment, you need to do everything listed in Question 1.

  1. *True
  2. False

 

6.       When you do peer reviews (work that earns large points in this course) and if you want those large points, you must look for everything listed in Question 1 and you must grade using the same method explained in Question 2.

  1. *True
  2. False

                                                                                            

7.       Question 1 and Question 2 together combined with my long experience in academia and industry where people had to understand new things meant that your professor realized that any teacher using this method can give the same type of feedback on your understanding of reality that you will experience from:

  1. A boss—one you hope will want to keep paying you.
  2. A professor in your career field—one you hope will write a reference for you.
  3. *Both of the listed professions.

 

8.       Question 1 and Question 2 together plus the content already required by the History Department let you practice habits for figuring out something small that requires similar habits needed for larger tasks such as:

a.       Making a personal decision that could change your career, health, money—your life

b.      Doing a job that requires you to solve problems and not just repeat other peoples’ solutions

c.       Completing an academic assignment for an upper level professor in your career field

d.      *All of the listed actions.

 

9.       What is different in these history assignments from the real world is that:

  1. In industry you will probably not place citations within your written work, but you had better know exactly your proof for every fact that you say or write.
  2. In academics, different disciplines follow different standards for citation.
  3. *Both of the listed items.

 

10.   This requirement applies regardless of the standard used by the course you are taking, with the common standards being MLA (Modern Language Association) for English courses, APA (American Psychological Association) for some social sciences such as psychology, and Chicago Manual of Style used by most history instructors and by other disciplines as well. Citation is providing the exact name of the source and the exact page or pages you used for the fact. Citation always goes immediately _____ the fact you wrote. Choose the missing word.

a.       *a. AFTER

b.      BEFORE

 

11.   This course follows the principles of when you cite that are shown in the example pages about the Chicago Manual of Style provided in your course. You must follow the Chicago Manual of Style’s principles when you cite, but you do something different if you are in a Distance Education class or an on-campus class:

a.       If you are in an on-campus class, you cite according to the instructions provided by the Department Chair of the History Department and use footnotes.

b.      If you are in a Distance Education class, you cite using a brief format that follows the principles of the Chicago Manual of Style, but allows you to place brief citation within the line of text.

c.       *Either is accepted, but you do the one used for your class.

12.   Your professor is willing to try to help every student because practicing these habits can make every student’s future easier. Just ask.

a.       *True

b.      False