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Revision

Using Turnitin to Teach Students about Plagiarism

Posted on August 20, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged biocore, Plagiarism, Research, Revision, Sources

Designing Activities and Assignments to Discourage Plagiarism

Posted on August 20, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, Assignments, General, Plagiarism, Revision

Revising Paragraphs

Posted on August 20, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, English, General, Paragraphs, Revision

Offering Students Encouragement as They Revise

Posted on August 20, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged biocore, Email, Feedback, Revision, Undergraduate

Teaching Revision

Posted on August 20, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, General, Revision

Crafting a Thesis Statement

Posted on August 20, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged English, Revision, Thesis, Undergraduate

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