Jean Heitz, Course Coordinator, Biology 151/152 Why do students plagiarize? A number of recent studies indicate that the vast majority of students admit to having cheated or plagiarized assignments at least once in their …
Revision
Designing Activities and Assignments to Discourage Plagiarism
Alice J. Robison, Bonnie K. Smith, Writing Across the Curriculum Plagiarism is a serious topic raised frequently when we talk about responding to student writing, and it makes sense that we should want to …
Revising Paragraphs
Professor David Zimmerman, English Topic sentences are the most important sentences of your essay. They provide the scaffolding or frame for your argument. The function of a body paragraph in an analytical essay is …
Offering Students Encouragement as They Revise
Dr. Ann Burgess, Biocore In the following email sent to all students in a large course, Dr. Ann Burgess—former director of the Biocore program—encourages Biocore students to keep working on their revisions, even when …
Teaching Revision
Rebecca Lorimer and Rebecca Schoenike Nowacek, Writing Across the Curriculum Revision, revision, revision: the term is nearly a mantra in Comm-B and Writing-Intensive (WI) courses. Indeed, the university criteria for Comm-B and Writing-Intensive courses …
Crafting a Thesis Statement
Professor David Zimmerman, English Crafting a thesis is hard work. A successful thesis is typically the result of a long process of trying out different claims, selecting a few to refine and elaborate, and …