Shared Work Credit Account

Shared work deserves a story that leaves the other work visible.

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Companion to Give Credit for Shared Work Before the Story Becomes Yours Alone.

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Hypothetical example: a child corrects I made the whole notice to explain that they typed wording the group supplied.

01Start with the work before polishing the story

Describe the shared task before assigning credit.

Actual shared task

Account the child plans to give

Contribution the first story leaves out

02Separate doing, helping and deciding

Identify who did, helped or decided each meaningful part.

Child’s completed portion

Other person’s completed portion

Help or authorship still uncertain

03Use a sentence that leaves everyone’s work visible

Write an accurate account for the permitted audience.

Revised truthful sentence

Sharing permission to honor

Recognition the child may accurately accept

04Repair the audience’s mistaken impression

Correct any earlier mistaken impression.

Audience that heard the inflated account

Appropriate correction route

Correction actually made or still owed