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

2. 

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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
2. A new window will open1. Click on the icon Link above
3. 

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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Task-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: Your introductions

Dear All,

I'd like to ask you to do smth. creative to help me remember you quicker and better and also practise using this blog.

I have a couple of suggestions about what you can do but in the end, you are more than welcome to do smth different. Just remember that the main purpose of this task is to help me to get acquainted with you better and remember your names and surnames.

So, what can you do to help me?

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

                                                    OR

b) publish your favourite YouTube clip:

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

 a) a cartoon

 b)  an animal  

 c)  a book  

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

e) 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, Russian academic publications
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 post 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!