Would anyone pay you for this skill?

Frequently, students who have been rewarded for their actions in the past seem to reevaluate their assumptions when I ask “If you got really good at doing this, would any business or group want to pay you?”

 

 

 

5 Good Habits for Evidence

Would a Company Want to Pay You If….

Reliable Sources Only –  Includes reading actively and not claiming another person’s work as your own (plagiarism)

 

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Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source Before You Write – Includes understanding the question and reading for that question and no assumptions, cherry picking, or embellishments

Companies will pay for people who can figure things out—and that is based on factual accuracy that you verify with a reliable source before you say or write anything.

 

Companies, however, will not pay for people:

·         Who ignore the question (and explain why the Dallas plant is failing when the boss asked you about the one in San Antonio)

·         Who use Dallas data in a report on the San Antonio plant

·         Who assume the software used at the Dallas plant is the same at the San Antonio one

·         Who don’t select representative data, but cherry pick.

·         Who write inaccurate information, but it is exciting.

 

If the above are bad ideas for a company, why is it a good idea for your history writing assignment?

Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make – Includes double checking

·         Every fact you state

·         Every quotation (no words changed, no grammatical errors done to the author’s words, and no meaning changed)

 

Companies will pay for people who check their own work and correct their own errors before they pass their work to other parts of the company or to the customer.

 

Companies, however, will not pay for people:

·         Who can’t work independently

·         Who expect other people to catch their errors

·         Whose work requires rework by others

 

If the above are bad ideas for a company to pay for, why is it a good way for you to work in college.

Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make – Includes double checking every fact you state and every quotation (no words changed, no grammatical errors done to the author’s words, and no meaning changed)

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No “Half-Copy” Plagiarism or “Patchwriting”[1]

No one would pay an employee—at least not well—to copy words and move them around, especially without understanding the content.

Also see Why I Make  a Big Deal About "Half-Copy" Plagiarism and "Patchwriting."

Quotation Changes Revealed Clearly

 

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Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014

 

 

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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.