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What Are
the 5 Good Habits for Evidence?
Grading
Rubric and the 5 Good Habits for Evidence
Years ago a student asked me what could he do to prevent errors with evidence? He was involved with tennis and he used an analogy. He said “I need to know how to hold the racket.” I told him that I would try. I started out with about 10 things and got it down to these 5. The right column has really common sense tips. Some came from my 4th grade teacher, others from a wonderful professor in a junior college, a few (but they were good) from my dissertation director, and many from colleagues on job. This may be different for some of you, but you can do this.
Good Habits As Common Sense Actions You Can Do |
Links to Practical Examples for Each Good Habit |
Use only the sources that your prof or boss considers
reliable, especially any you are told to use. |
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Pay attention. 1.
Read the question and notice its
parts. What is the boss or prof asking you to do? 2.
Read the right part and all the parts of the sources
that you are told to use. 3.
Let the source “talk” to you.
Listen as though your grade or job depend on your figuring this out. Caution: Repeating and collecting
words is not figuring something out. |
Habit 2. Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source Before
You Write |
Plan your writing: 1.
When you think that you have figured out what the sources mean and what happened, then decide what
you must “teach.” 2.
You do not need to teach
everything, but everything you teach must be true: ·
Never cherry-pick ·
Never embellish These 2 words and others are defined at the bottom of
the Evidence Quizzes folder. |
Habit 3. Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable
for Every Statement You Make This may also help you:
Three Frequently Asked Questions about Citing
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Create your own simple words; do not steal another’s
words. If you use another’s words, you must: ·
Use “”(quotation marks) marks
accurately · Cite – show ownership accurately Do not: · Plagiarize · “Half-copy” plagiarize or “patchwrite” Look at examples of both at the bottom of the Evidence Quizzes folder. |
Habit 4. No
“Half-Copy” Plagiarism or “Patchwriting” This may also help you: Why I Make a Big Deal about Plagiarism and Patchwriting |
When using “” (quotation marks), protect your reputation by being
careful with the author’s reputation. Do not use "" inaccurately and: · Make the author's sentences look grammatically incorrect. · Change the author’s meaning (the bigger error) |
I have used a 5 Good Habits for Evidence rubric since years
ago when 1st student asked me how to prevent
problems with evidence. You will find a few definitions at the
bottom. The Directions
Criteria refers to the instructions from two documents
that you were to use and that I have numbered so all requirements pop out:
· #1 to #6 (including those with a through e) in the link How to Do Writing-#1 or Writing-#2 – General requirements for both writings. Link Address: http://www.cjbibus.com/Instructions_for_All_Formal_Writing_Assignments_1301.htm
· #1 to #4 (including those with a through c or e) in the link How to Do Writing-#1 – Specific requirements for Writing-#1. Link Address: http://www.cjbibus.com/Specific_Details_for_Writing-1_1301.htm
Do notice that Directions has always had the Weight of 25% of each level of grade.
Criteria |
Criteria for A
Paper 89.5 to 100% |
Criteria for B
Paper 79.5 to 89.4% |
Criteria for C
Paper 69.5 to 79.4% |
Criteria for D
Paper 59.5 to 69.40% |
Criteria for F
Paper 0 to 59.4% |
Reading FOR
Evidence (Weight 40%) |
Accurately read the parts. Analyzed each one. Evaluated
possible changes. |
Accurately read the parts. Analyzed each one. Tried to
evaluate possible changes. |
Accurately read the parts. Summarized only. Did not analyze. Did not try to evaluate possible changes. |
Misread or read passively (Habit 2). Made errors such as
cherry-picking facts or embellishing facts (Habit 3). |
Assumed (Habit 2). Used an unreliable source (Habit 1) or
an incorrect or incomplete part of the source required for the question asked
(Habit 2). |
Writing WITH
Evidence (Weight 30%) |
Clearly revealed each part of the question and their
possible changes. Used representative examples. |
Revealed each part of the question and some possible changes. Used a few examples. |
Only summarized separately each part of the question.
Did not cover possible changes. |
Wrote passively (Habit 2). Plagiarized or did “half-copy” plagiarism/ “patchwriting” (Habit 4). Used "" inaccurately and made the author’s writing grammatically incorrect (Habit 5). |
Wrote assumptions (Habit 2). Did not answer all parts of the question (Habit 2). Used "" inaccurately and changed meaning (Habit 5). |
Directions (Weight
25%) |
Followed exactly
all directions from #1
to #6 and from #1 to #4. |
Followed most
directions from #1 to #6 and from #1 to #4. |
Followed some
directions from #1 to #6 and from #1 to #4. |
Followed
a few directions from #1 to #6 and from #1 to #4. |
Did
not follow directions from #1
to #6 and from #1 to #4. |
Mechanics (Weight
5%) |
No more than one minor error. |
One or more mechanical errors. |
Two or more mechanical errors. |
Several mechanical errors. |
Many mechanical errors. |
Definitions from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Link Address: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
·
Analysis = “a detailed examination of anything complex
in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features”
·
Analyze = “to study or determine the nature and relationship of the
parts of (something) by analysis”
·
Change = “to make different in
some particular” or perhaps “to make radically
different”
· Evaluate = “to determine the significance… of usually by careful appraisal and study”
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