BPT1501 Assignment 1
Semester 1
2023 (862133)
PLEASE PARAPHRASE YOUR OWN WORK TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
“OWN YOUR WOR”
Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave his
class a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted
nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. He passed around a
skull as he talked. All the class took notes and later had a quiz.
When he returned the test papers, everyone was shocked. Everyone in the
class had failed.
What had happened? Very simple, Mr. Whitson explained. He had made up all
the stuff about the cattywampus. There had never been any such animal. The
information in the notes was, therefore, incorrect. Did the class expect credit
for incorrect answers?
Needless to say, the class was outraged. What kind of test was this?
And what kind of teacher? You should have figured it out, Mr. Whitson said.
After all, at the every moment he was passing around the cattywampus skull
(in truth, a cat's), hadn't he been telling his class that no trace of the animal
remained? He had described its amazing night vision, the color of its fur and
any number of other facts he couldn't have known. He had given the animal a
ridiculous name and the learner still hadn't been suspicious. The zeroes on his
learners' papers would be recorded in his grade book, he said. And they were
Mr. Whitson said he hoped his class would learn something from this
experience Teachers and textbooks ate not totals* In fact, no one s. He told the
class not to let their minds go to sleep, and to speak up if they ever thought he
LORA TUTORING
Semester 1
2023 (862133)
PLEASE PARAPHRASE YOUR OWN WORK TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
“OWN YOUR WOR”
Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave his
class a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted
nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. He passed around a
skull as he talked. All the class took notes and later had a quiz.
When he returned the test papers, everyone was shocked. Everyone in the
class had failed.
What had happened? Very simple, Mr. Whitson explained. He had made up all
the stuff about the cattywampus. There had never been any such animal. The
information in the notes was, therefore, incorrect. Did the class expect credit
for incorrect answers?
Needless to say, the class was outraged. What kind of test was this?
And what kind of teacher? You should have figured it out, Mr. Whitson said.
After all, at the every moment he was passing around the cattywampus skull
(in truth, a cat's), hadn't he been telling his class that no trace of the animal
remained? He had described its amazing night vision, the color of its fur and
any number of other facts he couldn't have known. He had given the animal a
ridiculous name and the learner still hadn't been suspicious. The zeroes on his
learners' papers would be recorded in his grade book, he said. And they were
Mr. Whitson said he hoped his class would learn something from this
experience Teachers and textbooks ate not totals* In fact, no one s. He told the
class not to let their minds go to sleep, and to speak up if they ever thought he
LORA TUTORING
