Reply To: Year 12 (Grade 11) Interrobang!? Inquiry Course @ Blanchelande College
Session 4: Being part of the conversation
You can download the presentation I used for this session here.
While the skill addressed in this session was citing and referencing, I felt it was vital to focus on the underlying attitudes that make citing and referencing an inevitable necessity rather than an externally imposed burden. I have unashamedly copied the following paragraphs from the article I wrote about this week’s session for the school’s weekly newsletter (which is an important advocacy tool for us as it provides a direct channel of communication with parents):
We talked about finding our voices in ‘the unending dialogue between the living, the dead and the yet-to-be born’ (Astle & Partridge, 2018, p.10) with (academic) integrity. The distinction between academic honesty and academic integrity is an important one, brilliantly explained by John Royce (2020) – ‘[a]cademic integrity is more than the choice of the writer – indeed, it is more, much more, than just about the writer … [it] is doing the right thing because this is you, what you do, who you are, how you behave. Integrity is not having to think about the right course of action, it comes naturally’. We were all agreed that we wanted to be known as men and women of integrity.
One of the first steps is learning how to work honestly with the ideas of others, so we began our journey by learning to use the citing and referencing tools in Word to make our sources clear.
Bibliography
Astle, J., & Partridge, L. (2018). Education for the Enlightenment. In A. Painter, Ideas for a 21st Century Enlightenment (pp. 10-15). London: RSA Action and Research Centre. Retrieved from https://www.thersa.org/reports/ideas-for-a-21st-century-enlightenment
Royce, J. (2020, July 29). The integrity of integrity. Retrieved February 10, 2022, from Honesty, honestly…: https://www.read2live.com/2020 /07/29/the-integrity-of-integrity/
For homework students were asked to produce a bibliography of all the sources they had used so far.
Focus skills for this session:
- Express: Cites all sources used according to standard style formats [and learns to use the tools in Microsoft Word to assist with this]
- Express: Ensures that all completed products are plagiarism-free (
and all visuals and sound are used within copyright provisions– not relevant in this case)
