Referencing

Dear All,

s       Let me remind you how to format the references to the resources you have used in your works correctly. The thing is that it's not enough to provide the link to the article(s) you have referred to in your work. You need to add the following information:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of the article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number (issue number if available). Retrieved from: https://www.someaddress.com/full/url/. Date of access. Date of publication. Example:S   Smith, B. (2015, July 15). Commenting on the current situation. Retrieved from http://www.buzzle.com, K. Klein, M. (2018, June 29). The Negative effects of Facebook on communication. Social Media Today RSS. Retrieved from http://socialmediatoday.com

N-gram viewer

I'd like to share with you an interesting tool N-gram viewer that shows the frequency of words use over a period of its existence

https://books.google.com/ngrams]


I'll add more information about this tool and how you can use  if you like it:

here is a short video that explains how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiDlNkqufbU

Here is a link to a course on Text Analysis (https://bmw9t.gitbooks.io/introduction-to-text-analysis/content/introduction/for-students.html), which has a section about N-gram viewer. You can look through it when you have time and share with us in the thread smth interesting you learned from this book.

Post-9: Semester Assignment

To complete the first semester you should prepare 2 essays devoted to the discussion of the issue(s) raised in the article you should choose them from the Guardian. The articles you will choose should be devoted to the discussion of some problem or issue that is important from a social point of view. For example, they could be about one of the problems that worry young people or about education, support from the government or something else along these lines.

You should explain why you have chosen the articles and why you are concerned about the topic/issue they are devoted to

The word limit for your essays is 350-400 words.

Make sure you write in your own words to avoid plagiarism. Please use the plagiarism checker at http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ OR http://www.paperrater.com/plagiarism_checker OR http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/ to make sure your work doesn’t contain plagiarized parts, In addition, you can use one of the tools listed in the blog post I’d like to share with you: http://elearningindustry.com/top-10-free-plagiarism-detection-tools-for-teachers.

Google “free plagiarism checker” if you cannot use any of these plagiarism checkers they day you want to check your works, which might be because they have used all their free limit.

Please remember too to include a reference to the article(s) are going to refer to in your essays. To make sure you layout your references correctly you can use the Citation Machine (http://www.citationmachine.net/apa/cite-a-website?new=true).

Also, it’d be great if you used a URL shortener, a special tool which automatically shortens long web-addresses, so that your work did not look cluttered: http://goo.gl/1cSPQ1

Your essays will be assessed using the following criteria:

1. Content
2. Organisation
3. Mechanics
4. Language use
5. Reference layout

One more task you need to complete is a reflection note the purpose of which is to discuss what activities you found useful and why; also, reflect on anything you think was not that useful and explain why. Finally, suggest a couple of topics you think you'd be interested in discussing the next semester.

The submission deadline is December 22 (? NEED to discuss it). It would be great if you could publish your works a day or 2 earlier.