Sunday, November 20, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Note the upcoming schedule, assignments, and final submission
Note the upcoming schedule, assignments, and final submission:
Friday November 18: LIB 014 research session
Monday November 21: E.4 initial submission DUE [with rough draft(s)]
Monday (11/28), Wednesday (11/30), and Friday (12/2): Adaptation unit presentations (see index cards)
Monday December 5: Final discussion of STYLE
ALL rewrites of all four essays DUE by Tuesday December 6 at 11:59 pm
ALL rewrites of all four essays DUE by Tuesday December 6 at 11:59 pm
REQUIRED: Final conference by December 5 after E.4 submitted
FINAL portfolio DUE December 14 (exam date), and must include (email as attachments):
• Showcase essays as determined in final conference
• Brief (2-3 pp) discussion of your writing process and what you have learned about yourself as a writer
• Select and submit ONE piece of your writing to be published on our blog
Monday, November 14, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Escalation in Digital Sleuthing Raises Quandary in Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Escalation in Digital Sleuthing Raises Quandary in Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Key passage from article:
Key passage from article:
A Writing Problem
Some researchers point to better teaching, not technology, as the key to preventing plagiarism.
Ms. Howard is a leader of the Citation Project, a national study of 174 student papers from 16 colleges and universities. The project, conducted in collaboration with Sandra Jamieson, chair of the English department at Drew University, brings data to claims about student writing by studying how students use the texts they cite. What it has uncovered so far is "not happy news," she says.
Students are "dragging sentences out of random, simplistic sources and pasting them together in an often incomprehensible pastiche" of sentences, Ms. Howard said in presenting the data at a conference this year.
"How much plagiarism goes away if students actually know how to read and write from sources?" she asks The Chronicle. "My guess is: a lot."
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
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