Back to School
Tomorrow I have the ever so exciting task of helping a fifth grader write a rough draft of a major (major for a 5th grader that is) research paper. This was a very exciting process last spring when we wrote a paper about the state of Arizona. Now the notecards are supposed to be finished so all that falls to me is to type the thing while working to not plagarize the entire report. The whole plagarism concept is hard for the students to grasp. From past experience, I know that the sources being used for the notecards are being quoted word for word, so at least I know what to avoid.Last spring, we got an A on the report. S and I work well together. I tell her what she can't write and help her along as she tries to rephrase to convey the facts. She got pretty good at understanding how to change things and still get the point across. Here's hoping she remembers because there is nothing worse than dealing with explaining why simply changing pretty to beautiful in a sentence does not mean we aren't still copying the text.
posted by E @1:12 PM