Right place, wrong time. Finding
shifts in a student’s context may be an indicator of borrowed
text. For example, "a passionate plea for president Clinton
to sign the Welfare Reform Bill into law" (this example
*may* become obsolete if Hillary ever gets in the presidential
office).
Presenting presents. Sources and examples
are different from the context of the subject being discussed.
No! Not homographs where polar bears may bear it all on a hot
summer day, and in haste similar items appear to be related.
However, the student may incorporate statistics of teenage runaways
in Rio de Janeiro in a discussion that seemed to focus on the
Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
…& why these years, again?! Tables
and charts reflect what seem like random time periods. For example,
a student presents the deaths from vehicular accidents from
1996 to 1992 to support an argument. Make sure the remainder
of the student's work provides an explanation for the use of
illustrations that are not necessarily current or in context
with the time period being discussed.
Is this what I assigned? The paper is completely
out of scope with the requirements of the assignment.
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