What the Student Was Educated
to Do
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The student’s words are shaded.
Traits |
Distance learning student Adult—worked really hard all the time |
Initial Submission
of a term in an exam |
The Dawes Severalyt Act was passed in 1887. This law was to authoriz the president to survy Native American reservations and divid them into 160 acre farms.This act stripped Native Americans of their rights. After recieving this land, Native Americans could not sell or lease the land for 25 years. For reformers this law pushed Indians towaerd white civilazation, but for for the western settlers it made Indian land more available.The Dawes Act undermined the trible structure and culture of the Native americans. |
Compared To The Common
Source |
Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act
in 1887. Named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of |
Our Initial Call
And Resolution—But I Didn’t Have Full Data |
We talked through a prevention of Before Compose, Close I thought things were OK I found a very distressed voice mail message. |
Transcript Of The Call
(Still Have It In Voicemail)—Very Typical Of These Students |
…I am having so much trouble. I have not taken the Exam 2 Writing Project simply because I’m afraid I’ll fail again because I’m afraid I will plagiarize. I don’t know how not to plagiarize. I just don’t know what I’m doing. I read what’s in the book and I uh…that’s just the way that I learn it. I tried to put that in my own words and for some reason it comes out just like in the book. I got a 1 last time. I’m just trying not to get a 1 this time. You can call me back at… |
Our Second Talk |
FINALLY the secret—she was taught to take notes from the book (as in the “grab up some words and muck them up”—as one student explained how this works). She was copying some words exactly into her notebook—and copying her own notes wasn’t plagiarism to her. She then typed those words exactly into Blackboard textbox Magical hypothesis indeed! Finally got through to her by asking if anyone would pay for the skill of typing stuff from one place to another. Then we tried again on prevention |
What She Wrote In
An Email About Her School Before And Where She Works |
in high school, maybe even jr hi, we were to find an answer in the book and write just what the book said. I now work at a private school and that is pretty much the same thing. Even on papers the students have to write what the encyclopedia, or wiki says. I didn’t learn about how easy and harsh plagerism is until 2007 when I seriously took my first english 1301 class. |
FYI: Although she had learned something about plagiarism in that class, she still did not realize that what she was doing was plagiarism. What seemed to get through to her was my asking if any business would pay her for what she was doing? Could a business make money from this kind of skill to be able to pay her enough that she could have food and shelter? Then we talked about whether what she was doing was really learning or just busy work. Doing this used up all of her time—and made sure she was acting in ways that meant she’d never learn. |
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Final Email |
She broke some of the old habits and she recognized it: |
This class has taught me more than just history and I just feel that My entire college career will be better because of you and this class. Thanks A million. |
WCJC Department: |
History – Dr. Bibus |
Contact Information: |
281.239.1577 or cjb_classes@yahoo.com |
Last Updated: |
2010 |
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