Post-8: Paraphrasing

Dear All,

We're practising paraphrasing with you and doing a set of exercises to help you master this skill. First, we're going to watch a video explaining what constitutes plagiarism and how you can paraphrase the other people's words not to plagiarise:

Stop Thief. Avoid Plagiarism  by Paraphrasing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z3EHIoa9HI

Next we'll discuss the difference between quoting, paraphrasing and summarising: 

 https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_research/quoting_paraphrasing_and_summarizing/index.html
After that we will discuss the steps to paraphrasing without plagiarising in more detail:
https://bit.ly/37nsKum (Douglas College exercise)

And then we'll do a number of exercises to practise paraphrasing and summarising:

a)  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_research/quoting_paraphrasing_and_summarizing/paraphrasing.html

b)  Intermediate-level Paraphrase Exercises
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/esl_exercises/paraphrase_and_summary_exercises/intermediate_paraphrase_exercises.html

c) More paraphrasing exercises (with answers): (added 25.11.2019)

http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/learnteach/epax/paraphrasing/Para3tryme.pdf
 Do Exercise D from the resource above under c) at home, we'll discuss it first and do Exercise E in which you are asked to summarise 3 passages. Please, read them at home, so that you'd be familiar with their content.

d) https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/Paraphrasing%20Handout%20-%20Activities.pdf 

Try to do the exercises yourselves first and then check yourselves against the KEY. Makes notes for us to be able to compare your answers with the key 

Post-7: Dealing with plagiarism

Dear All,

I thought you had a good idea what constitutes plagiarism, and thus there is no need to discuss this question with you. However, when reading your works I discovered an example of blatant plagiarism in one of the works written earlier by one of your peers. Thus I think it is necessary to return to the discussion of this issue to make it clearer to you what it is and how to avoid it.

Below is a short test which I am asking you to complete on your own before we'll discuss the answers together. Read the descriptions of the situations that refer to how smth was written and decide which of the situations presents a case of plagiarism. Also, explain why if you can.

1. An article is copied from some source (e.g. Wikipedia) and is submitted as the student's piece of writing.

2. Some portions of the student's writing are copied from some source (e.g. Wikipedia).

3. A sentence or a phrase in the student's piece of writing is copied from some source (e.g. Wikipedia).

4. Some information from Wikipedia is quoted in the student's essay and the article reference information is given.

5. Some information from Wikipedia is summarised by the student and a reference is provided.

6. Some information from Wikipedia is summarised by the student in his own words but no reference is provided.

7. Some information from Wikipedia is paraphrased in the student's work but no reference is provided.

8. The information from Wikipedia is quoted and properly attributed.

9. The information from Wikipedia is summarised and properly attributed.

10. The information from Wikipedia is paraphrased and properly attributed.

When you finish, we'll discuss your answers and will do a number of exercises to help you have practise in writing without plagiarising.

Here is a presentation we're going to watch to learn more about what to do and how to avoid plagiarising:

http://library.acadiau.ca/research/tutorials/you-quote-it-you-note-it.html

Next, let's do the exercise the link to which is provided below:
https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/jennifer.vacca/engl1301/argument-research-essay/purdue-owl-quoting-summarizing-and-paraphrasing-handouts-and-exercise

Write your version of paraphrased sentence 1 in the thread

I'll also add another exercise to help you practise paraphrasing later today (13.11.2019)

You should practise paraphrasing the other excerpts from the exercise from the Purdue University (the link is above)

More materials (added 25.11.2019)

Dear All,

We're practising paraphrasing with you and doing a set of exercises to help you master this skill. First, we're going to watch a video explaining what constitutes plagiarism and how you can paraphrase the other people's words not to plagiarise:
Stop Thief. Avoid Plagiarism  by Paraphrasing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z3EHIoa9HI

Next we'll discuss the difference between quoting, paraphrasing and summarising:

 https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_research/quoting_paraphrasing_and_summarizing/index.html
After that we will discuss the steps to paraphrasing without plagiarising in more detail:
https://bit.ly/37nsKum (Douglas College exercise)
And then we'll do a number of exercises to practise paraphrasing and summarising:

a)  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_research/quoting_paraphrasing_and_summarizing/paraphrasing.html

b)  Intermediate-level Paraphrase Exercises
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/esl_exercises/paraphrase_and_summary_exercises/intermediate_paraphrase_exercises.html

c) More paraphrasing exercises (with answers): (added 25.11.2019)

http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/learnteach/epax/paraphrasing/Para3tryme.pdf
 Do Exercise D from the resource above under c) at home, we'll discuss it first and do Exercise E in which you are asked to summarise 3 passages. Please, read them at home, so that you'd be familiar with their content.

d) https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/Paraphrasing%20Handout%20-%20Activities.pdf 

Try to do the exercises yourselves first and then check yourselves against the KEY. Makes notes for us to be able to compare your answers with the key 

Post 5: Assessment Criteria

Dear All,

I'd like to share with you the criteria I'm going to use to assess your works. They are as follows:


Next time we'll read sample essays that received one of these grades so that you would have a better idea of what to pay more attention to when writing your works.

Here is a link to sample candidate responses with examiner comments: http://bit.ly/32GTWS6. Could you read them at home, so that we could discuss them in class the next time?

Demonstration

To make a link active, you need to highlight it and click on the button Link and Blogger makes the link active

It is more convenient when the links open in a new window, to do it go to the Link, and click on the option "Open in a new window"

Emails
1. a.zharikova@g.nsu.ru              azharikova.blogspot.com
2. h.zommer@g.nsu.ru                 nzommer.blogspot.com (smth wrong)
4. a.avdeeva@g.nsu.ru                  annavdeeva18825.blogspot.com
5. silkov@g.nsu.ru                        silkov.blogspot.com
6. y.klimanova@g.nsu.ru              klimanova.blogspot.com
7. a.pershikova@g.nsu.ru             pershikovablogspot.com
8. e.bashkatova@g.nsu.ru             bashkatova18825.blogspot.com
9. e.kamenshchikova@g.nsu.ru    elizakamenshchikova.blogspot.com
10. y.derevyanko@g.nsu.ru          derevyankojulia.blogspot.com
11. Nikita Zommer                                   https://nzommer.blogspot.com/
12. Sergey Silkov                                     https://silkov18825.blogspot.com/

13. Yulia Klimanova                                  https://klimonova.blogspot.com                                                                 

14. Anastasia Pershikova                         https://pershikova18825.blogspot.com                                                                  15. Tkachenko Mikhail                              https://mtkachenko1.blogspot.com/                                                                           16. Lavrik Ekaterina                                 https://lavrikkate.blogspot.com/

17. Anna Avdeeva                                    https://annavdeeva18825.blogspot.com/

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Post-4_Interesting-topics for discussion

Dear All,

what makes writing particularly enjoyable is discussing the topics that are interesting for you, that provoke thought and enable you to consider them from different perspectives. So, what I am inviting you to do is to think about 3 or 4 topics that you personally would be interested in writing about, and sharing them with your peers and me in the thread. Add a 2-3 sentence explanation of what makes these topics interesting for you to discuss.

Also, read what 2 or 3 of your peers have suggested and comment on it by letting us know in what ways some of these suggestions can be interesting for you to discuss.

Post-3: Room 101

Have you read George Orwell's novel "1984"? Do you remember what Room 101 in it was for?

What I am inviting you to do today is to discuss what you would put into this room and explain why.

You can work on your own or together with one of your peers. After you have come up with the explanation of your choice, write a post explaining it and don't forget to add some supporting evidence to substantiate your answer.

If you use some internet resources to support your opinion, do not forget to provide the necessary reference information.

Looking forward to reading your explanations. 

Post-2: Blog use training

Dear All,

I am sorry that we have had just a couple of writing lessons due to circumstances. I am not at all happy with it and hope we'll be able to catch up.

Today we'll do several activities to help you learn how this space works and what you should do to benefit from this course the most. 

What I'm inviting you to do today is learn to do or practise doing the following things:  

a) publish a picture of you or a picture that is associated with you and tells a small story; explain it

  

b) publish your favourite YouTube clip

it can be a clip of your favourite singer/with your favourite actress or actor/smth or smb else you consider your favourite such as one of the following:

https://youtu.be/hA9bEKKxTNU

c) a cartoon

d)  an animal  

e)  a book
  

f) smth else: USE YOUR CREATIVE SKILLS and IMAGINATION:)

A note on the technical side: 

You'll have some practice today in publishing your posts and learn how to add images to them

Also, I'll explain a number of rules and the conventions you should use when writing your works, including the following:

a) learning about reference styles: MLA, APA, 

b) providing reference details: the author's name, the title of the article, the link to the resource, the date of publication, access date, the page numbers

I'll introduce you to the tool Citation Machine to do it 

c) adding them to your document in-text and in the end of it

Hope you will find this useful and will learn to do it in no time.

Good luck!

See you in class shortly:)