Using information honestly · Alberta Grade 4 · maddyhelps.com
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Read the fact card, then do the three jobs. Grade 4 is often the first report written from books and websites, and this is the habit that keeps it honest.
From “Prairie Birds”, by R. Okafor, page 12: “The great horned owl is Alberta’s provincial bird. It hunts at night, and its large eyes face forward, which helps it judge how far away its prey is.”
1. Copy one sentence exactly, in quotation marks, and say who wrote it
2. Say the same idea in your own words
3. Write the source down so someone else could find it
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Where did it come from?
1: any sentence, word for word, in quotation marks, followed by the author — “…” (R. Okafor). 2: something like Alberta's bird, the great horned owl, hunts at night and uses its forward-facing eyes to tell how far away things are. Changing two words is not paraphrasing; saying it a new way is. 3: Prairie Birds; R. Okafor; page 12. The book is invented for this sheet, but the owl facts are true.
Both routes are honest — quoting with the name, or paraphrasing and still saying where it came from. The dishonest one is the third: someone else's words with no quotation marks and no name. Most Grade 4 plagiarism is not cheating; it is not yet knowing the difference.