Orientation to Good
Habits for Evidence
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Only You Can Tell Which of You Don’t Already
Have the Good Habits for Evidence--What You Do to Find Out.
I can tell you:
That learning history as how things
work (not just memorization) requires Good Habits for Evidence
That jobs that pay well require
figuring things out and therefore Good Habits for Evidence
That researching comparing the source
to the student’s citations identified that a high percentage of students do not
know key Good Habits for Evidence – Click here
if you want more.
http://www.cjbibus.com/Getting_Started_Good_Habits_for_Evidence_Research_on_Students.htm
That whether you are already know the Good Habits for Evidence or you don’t know them at
all, I’m glad to help you as much as you want
Until I grade your first written
assignment, I can’t determine whether you understand the Good Habits for
Evidence or you don’t. You, however, can tell right now—before you write and before I grade. You can tell and—if needed—you
can figure out the Good Habits for Evidence. You have resources in this link
and I am also glad to help you.
This link is intended to let you
determine if you already have the Good Habits for Evidence and—if you do
not—determine how to find what you need.
Here’s What You Do
1. Read a page and
answer its Self Check question.
2. What you do next
depends on whether you understood and were correct, you are just a good
guesser, or your answer is incorrect. For me, incorrect on a Self-Check quiz does not mean you need to memorize
an answer to repeat to me. It means what you understood to be true is not what
I meant for you to understand.
* If you understood,
move to the next page.
* If you guessed or
your answer is incorrect, don’t move on until you figure it out.
FYI: The meaning of incorrect also applies to the Check Your
Knowledge quizzes on history content.
How Do You Figure It Out?
When you miss a Self-Check
question, the Self-Check feedback tells you to do to. If you still don’t
understand, please ask me.
Why do I say “please
ask me”? If you as an individual do not understand:
* I do want to help you.
* And I may need to
change the instructions themselves so that I can help others as well.
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What’s in the Next 5
Pages?
Each
of the next 5 pages:
Is
organized in the same way
Tells
you the requirement in the world beyond this class and in it
Provides
a link to how to work so you develop that Good Habit for Evidence
If
you want to see examples of student papers with each of these problems and
their source pages, you will find that on the next to the last page:
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Good Habit for Evidence 1: Reliable Sources Only
What’s
a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This
Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors
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:
Do not use:
In
this course,
there are consequences for unauthorized books and for copying from the
internet. To quote the syllabus, plagiarism and cheating include
use of unauthorized books or notes, securing help in a test, or copying tests
or assignments; they will result in a failing grade for the assignment. If any
portion of a writing assignment is copied from the Internet or another source,
the result will be an F (0) on the
assignment.
If
You Want Tips on How to Develop This Good Habit for Evidence
If you want more tips on this Good
Habit for Evidence, including on how you read, click here
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link above should work in this file but this is to insert in SOFTCHALK:
http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_GHforE_HOW_to_Work_ReliableSourcesONLY.htm
Quiz
In
this course, you may use these sources:
a.
The
textbook chosen by the History Department
b. Sources your instructor provides
c. Internet websites developed by
reliable historical associations
d. Only a and b
e.
All of the above
d.
If
you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section on this page. You
can also see examples in the Rubric with Links to Examples. All problems with
the Good Habits for Evidence are under the columns for D and F grades.
If
You Want More:
Combining rubrics
with grading with reliable sources also shifts responsibility to the student,
the way responsibility usually works: How Your Instructor Grades with the
Source and Your Written Work Side by Side—and how does grading this way change
responsibility.
http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_Good_Habits_For_Evidence_Why_Required_Source_Changes_Grading_Why_Like_World_of_Work.htm
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Good
Habit for Evidence 2: Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source
Before You Write
What’s
a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This
Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors
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 or their actions, do not include
only one as though the other did not occur.
If
You Want Tips on How to Develop This Good Habit for Evidence
If you want more tips on this Good
Habit for Evidence, click here.
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Quiz
In
this course, you are to:
a.
Verify every fact that you write by using the required, reliable source.
b. Show
your personal writing style and interest in history by using facts from the
source.
a.
If
you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section on this page. You
can also see examples in the Rubric with Links to Examples. All problems with
the Good Habits for Evidence are under the columns for D and F grades.
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Good Habit for Evidence
3: Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make
What’s
a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This
Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors
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—one that the boss (or professor) considers reliable
·
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 written assignments,
you must write according to the instructions and that
includes citations that show exactly
(a specific page) where each fact is from. You must cite both facts that are in the author’s
exact words (quotations) and facts written in your own words.
The style that you use for that citation may be:
·
Citations based on brief
instructions on the Chicago Manual of
Style, the citation method used in history.
·
Citations done using a very
simple method with endnotes provided as an additional instruction.
A frequently asked question: If you have a couple
of sentences from the same page of the source, then you only cite after the
last sentence.
If
You Want Tips on How to Develop This Good Habit for Evidence
If you want more tips on this Good
Habit for Evidence, click here
The
link above should work in this file but this is to insert in SOFTCHALK
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Quiz
In
this course, you must:
a.
Cite (provide an exact page number) for every fact you write in your own words
b. Cite (provide an exact page number) for
every fact in the author’s words (a quotation)
c. Both a and b
c.
If
you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section on this page. You
can also see examples in the Rubric with Links to Examples. All problems with
the Good Habits for Evidence are under the columns for D and F grades.
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Good Habit for Evidence 4: No “Half-Copy” Plagiarism or
“Patchwriting”[1]
What’s
a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This
Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors
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.
There is another form of plagiarism and
it is covered in the syllabus. In this course to quote the syllabus, plagiarism and cheating include use of unauthorized books or notes, securing help in a test, or copying
tests or assignments; they will result in a failing grade for the assignment.
If any portion of a writing
assignment is copied from the Internet or another source, the result will be an
F (0) on the assignment.
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 9th edition
of The Bedford Handbook describes as
“half-copy” plagiarism or “patchwriting” (page 746).
Why do I make a big deal about
“half-copy” plagiarism and “patchwriting”? Click here because the reasons
are in your interests and may
surprise you.
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If
You Want Tips on How to Develop This Good Habit for Evidence
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. Many students do not know these basics and all
students need to know them.
The
link above should work in this file but this is to insert in SOFTCHALK:http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_GHforE_HOW_to_Work_WithoutHalfCopyPlagiarismOrMisquoting.htm
Quiz
In
this course, you may:
a.
Write the author’s facts in your own words as long as you cite
b. Use the author’s exact words for
facts as long as you cite and you place those words within quotation marks
according to the specific rules for quotation marks (“”) to reveal ownership
that are covered in The Bedford Handbook
c. Both a and b
c.
Be
sure to look at the Tips section on this page. You can also see examples in the
Rubric with Links to Examples. All problems with the Good Habits for Evidence
are under the columns for D and F grades.
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Good Habit for Evidence 5: Quotation
Changes Revealed Clearly
What’s
a Good Habit for Evidence in the World Beyond This
Course—Whether Dealing with Bosses or with Future Professors
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, you may quote if
the quotations are carefully selected. 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.
You also:
If
You Want Tips on How to Develop This Good Habit for Evidence
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. Many students do not know
these basics and all students need to know them.
http://www.cjbibus.com/1301_1302_GHforE_HOW_to_Work_WithoutHalfCopyPlagiarismOrMisquoting.htm
Quiz
In
this course, you may quote
a.
If quotations are carefully selected
b. If you follow the rules in The Bedford Handbook to reveal any
changes you made to the author’s words—or you use the Brain Trick provided in
the Tips for this Good Habit for Evidence
c. If you do not change the author’s
meaning or make the author’s sentences look grammatically incorrect
d. Only a and c
e.
All of the above
e.
If
you missed this question, be sure to look at the Tips section on this page. You
can also see examples in the Rubric with Links to Examples. All problems with
the Good Habits for Evidence are under the columns for D and F grades.
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Finding the Other Information that You Need—Including Talking to
Your Instructor
·
What
Are the Parts of the Rubric and How It Used for Grading?
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·
Rubric
with Links to Examples and How-To-Do-It Tips
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in SOFTCHALK:
http://www.cjbibus.com/Good_Habits_for_Evidence_Rubric_with_Links.htm
Everything about the
Good Habits for Evidence is meant to be a way to help you develop skills for
today and for your future while not hurting your points in this course. I have
asked students over the years to write something that would help future
students understand its purpose. This distance learning student chose to talk
with me by phone as the fastest way we could work and here is what she wrote
after the class ended:
Dr. Bibus,
Thank you for spending the time with me this semester
going over how I can improve my writing skills on an evidence
based paper. I have learned that I need to allow the book to tell me what they
are trying to teach me instead of me trying to tell the book what the message
means. After speaking with you on the phone, I have realized that I was doing a
lot of assumptions on what the message of the book says instead of me learning
the facts and message of history. Talking with you really helped me understand
better what history is and learning that real "evidence" is important
in history.
If You Want More: Combining rubrics
with grading with the source shifts responsibility to the student, the way
responsibility usually works in a job or in a profession: How
Your Instructor Grades with the Source and Your Written Work Side by Side—and
how does grading this way changes responsibility. I will always be willing to help you, but you
have to decide you want help.
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What You Do for the 20 Points And Where You Do It?
1.
Download the file provided.
2.
Respond to the Questions and write the
brief reflection on your personal responsibility to meet the 5 Good Habits for Evidence—including
the responsibility to ask for help if you need it.
3.
Follow the link of instructions from Turnitin on how to upload a file to their assignment tool.
4.
Use the Turnitin
Assignment in Blackboard in the Good Habits for Evidence folder of Getting
Started.
Note: I will enter the 20 points for
your file, but I will not read your response unless you get a D or F grade on
the Practice Comparison. You only earn a D or F grade if you fail to follow one
or more of the Good Habits for Evidence in those columns of the rubric.
If you do have marks in the D or F
column, you:
1.
Do not earn the 10 points for the Good
Habits for Evidence grade for the Practice Assignment
2.
I also change the 20 points above to a temporary—notice that word—grade of 1.11.
After you complete the instructions stated in your rubric, I change the grade
back.
The syllabus explains more on how the temporary grade of 1.11 works.
WCJC Department: |
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Contact Information: |
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Last Updated: |
2014 |
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[1]
The quoted terms are explained on page 746
in the ninth edition of The Bedford
Handbook by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers.