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Strategies to Reduce Plagiarism and Increase Engagement

Posted on 15 November 2021 by Brent Warner
Brent Warner
Brent Warner

Plagiarism: scourge of the writing class and bane of teachers’ existence. Whether students are lifting others’ words accidentally or on purpose, there’s always something that comes up that puts us into a position of questioning the authenticity of some portion … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up With Issues of Plagiarism

Posted on 5 July 2019 by Betsy Gilliland
Betsy Gilliland
Betsy Gilliland

Academic writing involves extensive interaction between writers and texts. Writers develop their arguments out of other writers’ ideas and use published sources to both support and refute perspectives. Examine almost any academic journal article, and you will see references and … Continue reading →

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Mind Map It: Aiding ELL Vocabulary Acquisition

Posted on 27 April 2016 by Guest Author
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Guest Author

A guest post by Elizabeth Mosaidis In this blog, Elizabeth Mosaidis shares how she used the free online mind-mapping tool Coggle to help her ESL/EFL students better learn vocabulary and improve their essay writing. After reading some disappointing essays in … Continue reading →

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Why We Still Won’t Teach the 5-Paragraph Essay

Posted on 12 February 2016 by Guest Author
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Guest Author

A guest post by Nigel A. Caplan and Luciana C. de Oliveira In this blog, Nigel and Luciana address a recent post by Robert Sheppard, which defended the teaching of the 5-paragraph essay in ELT. Nigel’s son, a second grader, recently brought home … Continue reading →

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In Defense of the 5-Paragraph Essay

Posted on 4 January 2016 by Robert Sheppard
Robert Sheppard
Rob Sheppard

In a recent post over at Talks With Teachers, Brian Sztabnik puts a price on the head of the 5-paragraph essay. Torch it, bury it, at all costs, make it go away. Why this bounty? Well, the gist of the … Continue reading →

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