Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Wednesday afternoon class

Hello everyone,

In place of this afternoon's lessons, I have two exercises that you need to complete on your own.

1.  The first deals with recognizing plagiarism, as we have been discussing in our lesson.  This link will take you to an online quiz containing 10 questions.  Look at the questions and compare the original texts with the sample student texts.  Thinking about referencing and the copying of words and ideas, decide if these are a case of plagiarism or not and choose the appropriate response.  Once you have completed the quiz, you can print off the certificate to show your understanding of plagiarism.

https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/plagiarism_test.html


2.  The second is a website that deals with the topic of 'critical reading'.  This is in preparation for your assessment tomorrow as it deals directly with your ability to evaluate websites and information online.  The website is an online tutorial that you can follow and should take approximately one hour.  It is both explanatory, and you should read through the ideas it disucsses as they pertain to evaluating information online, and interactive.  There are short exercises and activities you can try as you move through the tutorial to test your understanding.

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html


Please complete these website tutorials this afternoon and also finish preparing for the assessment tomorrow at 2pm.

Here is the new assignment for task 2 tomorrow:


TASK 2: WRITTEN ANALYSIS
A:         Write a report of 150 – 200 words on how to evaluate the reliability of a source on the internet.  In your report make specific reference to at least 3 of the gradings you have given in your example statements of fact and opinion in task 1.  (50 marks)
B:         (i) Select three of the five opinion quotations and in your own words write a short response which summarises the arguments chosen. (ii) Evaluate the 3 opinions saying how reliable you believe they are.  (40 marks)


Good luck everyone!

=-)
Jennifer

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