IP Q and A

If im not mistaken it's Initiates and above that can volunteer for IP team (Gotta complete the work before you can help others. )

I've searched the Forums and picked out a couple of bit and pieces that relate to the IP Team from previous threads. Hopefully this answers some of the basic queries without Kit having to type it all out again:

Kit wrote: The IP Team was built to help Novices through the Initiates Programme. Our purpose is to read your IP entries, and offer helpful guidance, answer questions, catch where the minimum standards aren't met (such as word count), and act as your cheer-leading squad! Our goal is to provide you with the support you need to complete the IP and hopefully minimize the questions the Knights will have when you submit it for approval.

You won't be seeing messages from us for all of your posts, but if you have a specific question about your journal or would like a review, please feel free to send one of us a message!

If you would like to opt out of the IP Team's attentions, please send me a PM and I'll make a note on our spreadsheet!

Kit Later wrote: I'm excited to announce that we are testing a new way to run the IP Team that involves our team members sponsoring Novices. This'll give Novices a little more individualized attention and quicker turn-around for final review submissions.

Kit Further wrote: The IP team is looking for volunteers! We're looking for people to fill the following roles:

Heralds (2-3 positions):
-message new novices to introduce the IP Team.
-Required rank: Initiate or higher

Sponsors (no limit):
-review an assigned caseload of IP journals (includes updating a checklist/spreadsheet) - minimum caseload is 5 journals
-answer questions from assigned novices
-advise IP Team Delegator of inactive or plagiarized journals
-Required Rank: Apprentice or higher

It's important to know that commitment and communication is key.

as someone who has had learning difficulties myself, I am more than happy to help people do Alternative forms of journaling.

Twigga wrote: It sounds like time and hands are short Kit. Can you tell me more about the IP team, what the responsibilities are, and how we can participate and help?

Thank you for digging those up for me Brick there's been a few changes so I'll go ahead and rehash it

The IP Team is intended to act as Novice's point of contact for questions. It was created to bring some support to the IP which was a very lonely process and we noticed a lot of Novices just disappearing. The intent is to have each Novice assigned to a Sponsor who reads their journal entries as they're posted. Sponsors provide support with prompting questions to expand your journals, keeps an eye on lesson requirements to ensure Novice's journals are meeting the minimum standards, and just be an all-around cheer-leader for when you need it. At least that's the idea, but with the limited hands and the overwhelming number of Novices I didn't realize we had, that's still a future goal.

I turned the Team over to MadHatter , he's been a most excellent lead over the last six+ months and may have changed a few things, so if you want clarification, details, or wish to volunteer, go toss a PM at him. But Initiates and up are encouraged to join the team. As Ari said, you need to have already gone through the process to be able to help others (at least officially)

I took a look at the Wikipedia link on Plagiarism; and it was a bit confusing. It says that plagiarism is defined very differently in journalism, academia, and in law. It even implies that plagiarism in the arts is seen, at times, quite positively.

Would I be right to understand that the definition of plagiarism within TotJO is along the lines that you’ve described here? Less than 20% coming from other sources (even if they are cited in the bibliography) and no phrases taken out of other individuals' IP posts without acknowledgement?

What constitutes an appropriate citation? Can I write "Sponsors provide support with prompting questions to expand your journals, keeps an eye on lesson requirements to ensure Novice's journals are meeting the minimum standards, and just be an all-around cheer-leader for when you need it." (Thanks Kit)? Or is that still unclear?

Twigga wrote: I took a look at the Wikipedia link on Plagiarism; and it was a bit confusing. It says that plagiarism is defined very differently in journalism, academia, and in law. It even implies that plagiarism in the arts is seen, at times, quite positively.

Would I be right to understand that the definition of plagiarism within TotJO is along the lines that you’ve described here? Less than 20% coming from other sources (even if they are cited in the bibliography) and no phrases taken out of other individuals' IP posts without acknowledgement?

What constitutes an appropriate citation? Can I write "Sponsors provide support with prompting questions to expand your journals, keeps an eye on lesson requirements to ensure Novice's journals are meeting the minimum standards, and just be an all-around cheer-leader for when you need it." (Thanks Kit)? Or is that still unclear?

I'm actually working on a lesson/article that will clear up all of that but the details are still foggy because I haven't written anything down so it may change from what I say here.

In our world, plagiarism is copying or paraphrasing another's words without proper citation. Honestly, paraphrasing will be hard for us to 'catch', but citing that is a necessary part of integrity and morals too.

I'm planning a very simple citation process, Novices are welcome to use a more advanced one but most of what we're concerned about is that there are quotes and links. Your example would not be enough (who is Kit? Where did they say this? is this a part of a larger whole?). So in a journal you would write something like:

Words words words, "Sponsors provide support with prompting questions to expand your journals, keeps an eye on lesson requirements to ensure Novice's journals are meeting the minimum standards, and just be an all-around cheer-leader for when you need it." (1) words words words...A Team is a group of people working together(2).



(1) Kit: https://www.templeofthejediorder.org/forum/ip-study-hall/121084-ip-q-and-a?start=20#319311
(2) Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/browse/team?s=t

Where (1) is referencing a direct quote (known by using the quotation marks), and (2) is a paraphrase (referencing where I learned the information from, but written in my own words). It's important to include all your references when you do research for a few reasons. The main one is to credit those who you got the information from, but it also lets you check back on your references if you need to share them with someone else, AND it allows the Knights to be sure you're using proper, legitimate, and reliable sources. Now if you already know what a team is, you don't need to reference it, this was just an example

Should, perhaps, a fourth part to Lesson 0 be added to get Novice's to post the dictionary definition, as well as their understanding of plagiarism and how to avoid it?

All of this could be new to people who are some way through their IP Kit... How do we go about fixing things? Do we just wait to the end of the IP?

Twigga wrote: All of this could be new to people who are some way through their IP Kit... How do we go about fixing things? Do we just wait to the end of the IP?

Arisaig wrote: Should, perhaps, a fourth part to Lesson 0 be added to get Novice's to post the dictionary definition, as well as their understanding of plagiarism and how to avoid it?

It'll go somewhere like that Ari. Once I get it written (should be this week) I'll put it up to the Edu department and we'll decide where to stick it. It'll either be an early lesson with a reminder before the 'esssay' portions (I'm pretty sure that's where the self research comes in first) or put up as a reference and linked in the IP. I feel like a lesson would be best IMO. That way we can point back to their journal entry and say "Hey, remember what you saw here? yeah let's do that"

That's also probably a good place to put the consequences too.

The consequences? What might they be?