Tip: Use the box in the left column to check off (Ö) each
thing as you do it.
Reminder: The 5 Good Habits for Evidence and Would Anyone Pay You If
You Didn’t Have These Skills?
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What You Must Find Out Before You Work |
In This Course |
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What does the instructor
expect from you? |
What’s a Comparison in this course or an Alternative
Writing |
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Are there examples you can see
of what the instructor expects including how you are to reveal where your
evidence came from? |
What are the basics of how the Comparison looks What are examples of a C, B, and A level Comparison What are the basics of citation and examples of endnotes in the student example of an A Comparison |
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What standard do you follow
for citing evidence? History uses the Chicago Manual of Style, and this
course uses a very simple version of Chicago to show the reader (cite) the
exact page of the textbook that provides evidence for what you write. |
When citing the textbook,
the author’s last name and the specific page. Example if you used page 35: I Ayers,
p. 35. Student Example: The student example of an A Comparison covers citation and shows endnotes. |
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How do you cite the exact
page of one of the primaries provided for some of the comparisons? |
Comparisons requiring
primaries tell you a simple way to cite primaries. |
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How does the rubric determine
your grade for the separate Good Habits for Evidence grade and for
Comparison? |
Feedback page that is provided with your paper with your instructor’s comments. |
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What are things you should
not do? |
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What does the instructor want
you to figure out and what are you to examine (specific pages)? |
For each Comparison, there
is a Content link. It gives all possible topics and lists all required pages
for each topic. |
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How does the instructor
expect your work to look? |
For each Comparison, there
is an Instructions link and pre-formatted file. |
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What You Must Do |
How to Do This |
Good Habit |
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Read all of the required
content? All pages and primaries listed? |
Check the Contents link |
# 1 |
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Notice what applies to your
question—and what doesn’t? |
# 2 |
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Read actively all of the sentences?
Look up general words you don’t know and noticing words with a historical
meaning? |
# 2 and # 3 |
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Use the 5 W’s chart to
deconstruct facts so you can think about them (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and
sometimes How)? Tip:
Do not write words from the source in your 5 W’s chart. List a page number
only. |
Required for the
Introductory Comparison |
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Use the 5 W’s chart to
decide what 2-3 issues you want to Compare? (Choose issues that would
help someone learn changes in history.) |
Required for the
Introductory Comparison See an example. |
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What You Must Do |
How to Do This |
Good Habit |
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Looking at your 5 W’s
chart, pretend to teach someone what
your 2-3 issues. (Stammering shows you when to reread that content.) |
# 2 and # 3 |
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Repeat the speech until it
makes sense (usually 3 to 5 times). Say it again but type it as you speak to
create your rough draft. If you have a quotation to use, type it exactly and
then close the book before you write anything else. |
# 2 and # 3 |
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What You Must Do Before Submitting for a Grade |
How to Do This |
Good Habit |
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Check your work for accurate
evidence (or proof) |
# 3 |
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Proofread ( or proof) your work
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For accuracy of quotation marks
with all of the author’s words |
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For correct use of language in general and for
the discipline of history |
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If you can wait 24 hours, proof
it again before you submit |
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C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2015 |
WCJC Department: |
History
– Dr. Bibus |
Contact
Information: |
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Last Updated: |
2015 |
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