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Review: Search, Source Roles and Productive Discussion

Apply choose targeted search language, identify a source’s relationship to an event, avoid unacknowledged borrowing, make a constructive discussion move using supplied texts and original responses.

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Unit review questions
1. Original excerpt A: Question: What are the frame dimensions? Candidate focused query: model frame dimensions. Which query best fits the supplied information need?
Need a hint?
  • Use terminology from the question.
  • A search result’s rank is not a reliability rating.
2. Original excerpt B: The manual gives a numbered construction procedure and dimensions. Use excerpt B only. Which source role is supported by the excerpt?
Need a hint?
  • Participant status concerns relationship, not automatic accuracy.
  • An advertisement can contain facts but also has a promotional purpose.
3. Original excerpt C: Source: The frame measures ten centimeters. Draft: The frame’s length is ten centimeters, rewritten but not attributed. Use excerpt C only. What treatment does the supplied draft need?
Need a hint?
  • A citation does not excuse copying without quotation.
  • Changing two words is not necessarily a paraphrase.
4. Original excerpt D: Lea: It is larger. Jo: Which measurement do you mean—height or width? Use excerpt D only. Which discussion move is the supplied reply performing?
Need a hint?
  • Could you define invites clarification.
  • Agreement does not mean every detail is settled.

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Use the skills in a new task

Make a short complete response demonstrating the four skills in this unit. Use this supplied source sentence by Fictional Model Club: The hinge bent five times before the paper tore. Make an exact quotation with credit and a genuine paraphrase with credit. Propose a focused follow-up question and script a four-turn discussion using clarification, extension, evidence-based challenge and summary. Longer writing targets in optional extensions can be completed in a later session.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Identify the question’s main topic and limiting feature. Construct the supplied focused query and check returned source titles before reading.
  • Use the source’s creation role and purpose. Do not assume firsthand means complete or unbiased.
  • Compare draft to the supplied source and identify how much wording or meaning is borrowed. Apply the matching treatment.
  • Identify what the reply does to the earlier contribution. Use supplied evidence rather than a personal insult when challenging.
Compare with a model response

Quotation: Fictional Model Club states, "The hinge bent five times before the paper tore." Paraphrase: The club's record reports a tear after five completed bends. Follow-up: how does a cloth connection compare under the same bend rule? Four-turn discussion: JO: What does bend mean here—one fold or a fold and return? [clarification] LEA: One fold and return; building on the test, we could also compare cloth. [extension] JO: Yes, but the supplied five-bend record does not establish cloth durability or forever. [evidence-based challenge] LEA: We agree to preserve the five-bend paper result and propose a comparable cloth trial; its result remains unknown. [summary]

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.