How to Speed Up—I hope-- Getting Grades Entered with the 2nd Paper

Reminder: These things are job skills. 1

Rubric for What Bad Habits You Need to Change and Points and the Rubric. 1

What You Are Going to Do Today So You Can Keep Your Orange Folder to Work With. 1

Iteration and Points – You do not have to know all this at the beginning but by the end. 2

Stuff That Might Help Different People – Including about the exam and your final letter grade. 3

 

Reminder: These things are job skills

Habits for Evidence as a Job Skill and Survival – Would Anyone Pay You?

Rubric for What Bad Habits You Need to Change and Points and the Rubric

Rubric Provided for You in Evidence Quiz 4

·         F column in a job means not just a bad grade, but—if you do it on a job--you get fired. Doing F and D stuff means you are doing useful to an employer and for yourself.

·         Success with C through A columns means you can be useful in job even if you aren’t a great writer.

·         It’s 2 different grades – each 30 points

o   History Content

o   5 Good Habits for Evidence –Doing this way means you make a letter higher.

 

Points and the rubric:

Under the C, B, and A column the rubric says

Grade for the content: For a C, B, A, you must have no marks in the “D” or “F” columns.

This grade does not change.

 

The Good Habits for Evidence grade does change: Do not do these habits the on 3rd paper and get a 30 for Good Habits for Evidence. THEN the 1.11 for Good Habits for Evidence turn for the 2nd paper turns into 30.

Try using your brain this way and it’s difficult at first but my experience is you will love how your brain feels—and you will be safer when you have to make a personal decision.

On 30 points:

·         A- = 27

·         B- = 24

·         C- = 21

·         If you have marks in the “D” or “F” columns, the entry is 20.9 (averages as a C- but alerts me that it is the grade for having marks in the “D” or “F” columns. Your bosses and your profs in junior and senior classes will notice accuracy. I am grading you at freshman level content but also alerting you to habits that will hurt your future. Being smart is never enough. Note: I made an error and used the wrong number on 2 classes. I will be changing all 17.9 grades to 20.9 over the weekend.

 

What You Are Going to Do Today So You Can Keep Your Orange Folder to Work With

If your grade for the Good Habits for Evidence is 1.11, it becomes the full 30 points when you follow all the habits in the 3rd Paper. Be simple (do not claim something you cannot prove) and double-check what you do and you will succeed. You can change habits. (Bad habits weaken a good brain.) The links in the rubric take you to practical tips.

 

This is an attempt to speed this up and have you mark that you know what is on the Good Habits for Evidence rubric so I can enter points faster.

 

The first columns you just have to compare with the rubric in your orange folder and initial to the left of your name. The only thing you have to mark is your answer on either of the blue columns

Top –Does the 1st paper go up? X the 1

-Answer: Not at this time

-Answer: Yes to 80 points

Left bottom- Question 1 – X the 1s

-If Habit 1 is underlined

-If Habit 2 is underlined

-If Habit 3 is underlined

-If Habit 4 is underlined

-If Habit 5 is underlined

Left bottom—Question 2 – X the 1

-Answer: a) I understand…

-Answer: b) I will talk to my instructor

 

 

 Joe” as an example of what you do on your rubric

http://www.cjbibus.com/JoePaperShowsWHERE_He_Has_Bad_Habits-A_SentenceOr--IF_bracket-SeveralSentences.pdf
Caution: To recognize a bad habit, you have to do what I do. I compare what you wrote with the source page you said you used.
I will be glad to show you.

 

http://www.cjbibus.com/JoeRubricShowsWHAT_Bad_Habits_He_Has.pdf  - Take your rubric and fill it in so you know what you need to change. I will then go enter the grades once I return things to every class...

 

Iteration and Points – You do not have to know all this at the beginning but by the end.

Two of your prior grades can change if you change:

·         The 80 points for the 1st paper (You can change on the 2nd Paper or the 3rd Paper.)

·         And the 1.11 for the Good Habits for Evidence on the 2nd paper. (You must change on the 3rd Paper

1st Paper

2nd Paper

3rd Paper

80

30 Content, 30 Good Habits for Evidence, Orange folder 5, 5

30 Content, 30 Good Habits for Evidence, Orange folder 5, 5

1st Goal: essentials of evidence

 

 

How to show evidence (footnote)

Where footnotes must go

 

 

If you succeed, then 80

If you do not succeed, try differently on the next paper. Why not ask your instructor?

If you succeed on the 2nd Paper

<<<points go to 80 on the 1st paper

If you finally succeed on the 3rd Paper
<<<points go to 80 on 1st Paper

2nd Goal: figure out facts using evidence

If you succeed on the 2nd Paper, you get 30 out of 30 on its 5 Good Habits for Evidence

You get C (21) to A (27) grade on its Content.

Practice your success again and these habits will stay with you.

 

If you do not succeed, you get 1.11 out of 30 on its 5 Good Habits for Evidence and you get a D grade on its Content.

If you do not succeed, try differently on the next paper. Why not ask your instructor?

If you finally succeed on the 3rd Paper, for the 3rd paper you get 30 out of 30 on its 5 Good Habits for Evidence and you get C to A grade on its Content.
If you finally succeed on the 3rd Paper <<<points of 1.11 on 2nd Paper’s Good Habits for Evidence grade go to 30 on the 2nd Paper.

3rd Goal: realize that not all writing is the same -- History (or writing about anything real including for a job) is about accurately:

·         Collecting evidence

·         Figuring it out.

This is a college freshman project but also skills for your future.

4th Goal: realize that for the rest of your life (if you get paid well) you must:

·         Follow directions (including ones that are new to you and you are expected to ask if you have questions)

·         Complete before the due date

That’s why there is the Prove You Changed as a last chance.

 

Stuff That Might Help Different People – Including about the exam and your final letter grade

Issue

Details

My fear is some of you are not doing Learning Quizzes but you do not realize the result

Learning Quizzes = 200 points out of 1000 for the course

If want an A, need 895 bullseyes in the target

If you do not do quizzes, you threw away 200 arrows. Even perfect in everything else, you will not make that A.

 

If you are in US History I, you could shift now and do the Learning Quizzes for about 85 points. It is map heavy in Unit 3.

 

My guess is some of you are making lower grades on your exams than is right for your brain

If you want—after Thursday—you tell me how you study, I take notes, and then I see if I can suggest things to help you.

FYI: the past does not prove the future, but in the past when a smart person made low marks twice, there was some habit at work from high school that zapped the person. I cannot promise this will find a habit you need to change, but you are worth it to me to try.

 

If you think my reading of your evidence is incorrect

Talk to me. Show me.

·         If I am right, you are better off if you know that.

·         If I am wrong, I want to change your grade to what is correct.

Common solutions

Where are the words to use for each citation?

 

Where is the Prove You Changed Turnitin Assignment?

 

Where is the 3rd Paper and its Turnitin? It is easier language than the 1600s.

 

Common errors

·         African American in 1620

·         Typing with the book open

·         Citing a quotation and continuing with a fact in your own words from the same source in the next sentence without

o   Either citing that next sentence

o   Or moving your citation to the end of that next sentence

·         Not realizing that an expert (your audience for the rest of your life) will know you are wrong

·         Not realizing that an expert with the source next to her can prove that you are wrong. Examples:

o   You are looking at the book and just moving a few words around like swapping words connected by and.

o   You are not on the page you say you are

o   You are misreading the book

o   You are making the book/primary much more exciting than it is and you do not have proof on the page you cited

 

Guys, do not do this to yourself. I am on your side and you can do this. Your habits are in your way.

 

Why highlight of 1 color for all things you quote

Why? a) Helps me focus on1 of 3 (and sometimes 4) passes through all papers

b) Helps you see what I see. Example: If all you do is quote, the color shows that.

Why highlight of another color for all citations (AKA proof—in our case footnotes)

 

 

Footnotes show 2 things

1.       You followed directions

2.       You understand what the people who pay you (or write a reference that helps you in your career) will require you to prove if you are figuring things out.
They may or may not want citation but they will demand proof.

 

With history (and for OK thinking), you must cite a specific page from a reliable source:

·         For a quotation you used

·         For a fact you wrote in your own words.

 

So if you had a quotation plus footnote and then another sentence with a fact in your own words, I drew a line showing where that footnote belonged—after that last fact.

My guess is some of you are using a method that works to collect quotations for a research paper but it does fit figuring something out.

If you want—after Thursday—you tell me how you write something, I take notes, and then I see if I can suggest things to help you.

My guess is some of you would be stronger if you quoted less.

If you want—after Thursday—we could look at your paper together and see places where you could be stronger.

My guess is some of you are not using the search words that I placed under primaries.

Stop that.

Why? You wrote a lot about something interesting but not applicable to the overall question. Search words were meant to help you focus on things historians focus on for this issue.

My certainty is some of you did not use the list of accepted pages.

Stop that.

Why? You wrote a lot about something interesting but not applicable to the overall question.

Why a grade like 20.9 or 23.9 or 26.9?

Example: C- on a 30 point paper is 21.

20.9 averages as a 21, but it alerts you that this work was at the low end of the grade. I do not want to hurt your points; I do want to help you know when to change.

 

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