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Links: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/18/cheops-european-satellite-lifts-off-to-study-planets-beyond-solar-system

Task-9: Semester assignment

Dear All,

to complete the first semester you should prepare 2 essays devoted to the discussion of the issue(s) raised in the articles you should choose them from the Guardian. or some other free news resource available for free. 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 250-300 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. It would be great if you could publish your works a day or 2 earlier.

Task-8: Paraphrasing

Dear All,

We're practising paraphrasing today 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 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 

Task-7: Essay outline

Task-6: Possible essay topics

Dear All,

I'd like you to look through the list of possible topics you might be interested to write about, choose 4 or 5, explain why you are interested in writing on them, and then choose one and start developing your essay draft by listing the points you want to discuss in your essay and the supporting evidence you think you can use to support your points

1. Good research paper topics:

https://blog.prepscholar.com/good-research-paper-topics

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Post-5: Your favourite resource for learning English

Dear All,

Today I'd like you to share with your peers and me the information about your favorite learning English resource. You need to describe it briefly enumerating its general features first and then providing us with some more specific details.

1. Resource name with a link
2. Its general description
3. Description of its specific features
4. Your favourite features: mention several and add some examples
5. Explain why this resource can be useful for your peers and how they can benefit from using it.

On the technical side, remember to provide the links to the resources/sections of the website you are describing. This is how you can do it:

1. Click on the icon Link above
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Post-4: Writing 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. We'd read them in class together so that you'll get a better idea about what to pay attention to when  writing your works

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