students’ difficulties with the academic genre should be considered to be the norm, rather than the exception.
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Online Proofreading Software Services | Ginger Proof Reader - 99 views
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EssayRater - 107 views
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From site: "The fastest way to better writing. EssayRater is a writing support tool that proofreads your texts and protects you against: plagiarism, poor grammar, spelling errors, punctuation mistakes, poor word choice."
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This sounded like a great answer for teachers wanting to help students improve their essays. However, to get the results for scanning a document, you have to pay a minimum of $19.95 a month.
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Taylor & Francis Online :: Supervision and scholarly writing: writing to learn-learning... - 0 views
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fallacious to assume that supervisors are necessarily scholarly writers
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benefit of naming what will be attended to and framing its context accrues through the process of planning, action and reflection
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I conceived postgraduate students’ writing as similar to that of an academic co‐author.
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explored whether these were careless errors or whether the students had difficulty with particular aspects of writin
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writing block initially posed a major ethical dilemma for me because the ethical guidelines of authorship restrict the writing that should be undertaken by a superviso
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not writing per se that underpinned Denise’s writing block but a lack of knowledge about the content and organization of a particular writing task.
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nadvertently engaged in unethical writing behaviour by including me as a co‐author without my permission
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tendency to rush through corrections, which often resulted in many issues identified on a previous draft remaining unresolved
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writing was often submitted and returned electronically using the ‘comments’ and ‘track changes’ tools in Microsoft Word.
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email guidance, sessions where writing was modeled and her writing scaffolded, and handouts on writing style.
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supervisor, it was difficult to maintain interest in and respond to Sherry’s work because of the time lag between each piece of writing
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Sherry’s approach to writing was likely to result in a lengthy completion time and she needed to accept the responsibility for managing her writing tasks.
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community of support for each othe
Quill.org - Interactive Writing and Grammar - 72 views
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Grammarly | Instant Grammar Check - Plagiarism Checker - Online Proofreader - 57 views
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20 reasons why students should blog | On an e-journey with generation Y - 181 views
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It is FUN! Fun!….. I hear your sceptical exclamation!! However, it is wonderful when students think they are having so much fun, they forget that they are actually learning. A favourite comment on one of my blog posts is: It’s great when kids get so caught up in things they forget they’re even learning… by jodhiay authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evalutes work but a potential global audience. Suits all learning styles – special ed (this student attends special school 3days per weeek, our school 2 days per week, gifted ed, visual students, multi-literacies plus ‘normal‘ students. Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy to write and complete aspects of the post topic. Many will add to it in their own time. Increased motivation for reading – my students will happily spend a lot of time browsing through fellow student posts and their global counterparts. Many have linked their friends onto their blogroll for quick access. Many make comments, albeit often in their own sms language. Improved confidence levels – a lot of this comes through comments and global dots on their cluster maps. Students can share their strengths and upload areas of interest or units of work eg personal digital photography, their pets, hobbies etc Staff are given an often rare insight into what some students are good at. We find talents that were otherwise unknown and it allows us to work on those strengths. It allows staff to often gain insight to how students are feeling and thinking. Pride in their work – My experience is that students want their blogs to look good in both terms of presentation and content. (Sample of a year 10 boy’s work) Blogs allow text, multimedia, widgets, audio and images – all items that digital natives want to use Increased proofreading and validation skills Improved awareness of possible dangers that may confront them in the real world, whilst in a sheltered classroom environment Ability to share – part of the conceptual revolution that we are entering. They can share with each other, staff, their parents, the community, and the globe. Mutual learning between students and staff and students. Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the classroom. Grandparents from England have made comments on student posts. Parents have ‘adopted’ students who do not have internet access and ensured they have comments. Blogs may be used for digital portfolios and all the benefits this entails Work is permanently stored, easily accessed and valuable comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation purposes Students are digital natives - blogging is a natural element of this. Gives students a chance to show responsibility and trustworthiness and engenders independence. Prepares students for digital citizenship as they learn cybersafety and netiquette Fosters peer to peer mentoring. Students are happy to share, learn from and teach their peers (and this, often not their usual social groups) Allows student led professional development and one more…… Students set the topics for posts – leads to deeper thinking
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Paper Rater: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More - 72 views
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Grammarly | Instant Grammar Check - Online Proofreading - 117 views
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YAKiToMe! - Text To Speech (TTS) - 8 views
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Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Proofread, learn a new language, multi-task, and use YAKiToMe! for entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) with both male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) synthesis technologies.
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A useful time saving resource which makes spoken mp3 files from Word documents, text files, PDFs, RSS feeds, webpages and more. Lots of different languages can be converted. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools