Showing posts with label composition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label composition. Show all posts
Friday, January 6, 2023
Friday, August 14, 2020
Suggestions: How to Direct Students Writing Research Papers
How to Write a Research Paper in 11 Steps
Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
Teacher Guide for Teaching Research
Students As Authentic Researchers: A New Prescription for the High School Research Assignment
Sample Guideline Research Paper: English 10
Sample Guideline RESEARCH PAPER: English 10
Sample Eleventh Grade Research Writing Student Handbook
Sample MLA Formatted Paper
And here is great input from our friends.
How to Make Writing Research Papers Relevant for Students
8 Reasons Why Students Should Still Write Research Papers
And never forget to encourage your student writers that they are well able to discover information and brilliantly express important ideas in clarity with confidence. Write on!
Sunday, June 28, 2020
A Writing Prompt to Really Get To Know Your Students
"Three Things I Want You To Know About Me."
I came up with this prompt while teaching high school, but it works with younger kids, too. It gives the students a choice of what to comment on, and allows them to use their own voice to tell it like it feels. You may learn a lot about music, sports, and their dog; but sometimes you will also learn about very serious topics like family crisis or illness. And at times the school can help the families. But you will know the students better, especially if you actually read the essays and comment on them. The kids feel very validated, and more willing to write the remainder of the year no matter what the topic.
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| Jim Abbott of the Yankees, pitching a no-hitter. |
I especially enjoyed when the students shared their dreams for their future. You would be amazed how many major league baseball players (of the future) were in my seventh grade classes. Far be it from me to say otherwise. Who knows, anyway? If Jim Abbott, who had only one hand due to a birth defect, became a major league pitcher, shouldn't I be like his grown-ups and be filled with encouragement.
Sunday, June 7, 2020
The Human Side of Assessing Writing
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| Commas, all I can think about is commas. |
I've seen what those programs did to the Gettysburg Address. Low scores for brevity and poor sentence structure, no doubt. "I Have A Dream," I bet too much repetition and veering off the main topic. We won't consider what a computer would try to do to poetry--ha, it kind of makes me laugh--the overload e e cummings would give it (just on written conventions!)
Can we trust our kids' thought development to a computer program?
1. The Algorithm Didn’t Like My Essay
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/business/essay-grading-software-as-teachers-aide-digital-domain.html?_r=1&ref=education
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| No points for free indirect discourse, Jane. |
Even English teachers have different perspectives on writing. I've worked with English teachers that will say, "Oh, I don't like poetry." How can that be? How can a person with no taste for the higher developed thoughts of man train young people to be eloquent? How can a machine with no soul?
2. Computers Grade Essays Fast ... But Not Always Well
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/07/154452475/computers-grade-essays-fast-but-not-always-well
The choice of words (and using written conventions, sentence structure, new use of vocabulary) to express thought really need an educated, well-read person to analyze it. And a person tolerant of new ideas. Are we looking for Data from Star Trek? He couldn't even use a contraction or understand an idiom.
Don't we want our kids to create new idioms?
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| What do they mean, "Miss Bronte, Wuthering Heights too emotional?" |
"There's a terrible tendency to confuse raising standards with standardizing."
— Sir Ken Robinson
Yes, Sir Ken, standardizing the genius of the next generation will only make them really bored with education. And finding a new venue to express themselves besides traditional school. I think maybe they've already found the acceptance of new ideas online.
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| I scored 3 on the rubric, same as the Emancipation Proclamation? |
"On a scale of 1 to 6, one of the greatest presidents of the United States was only getting 2s and 3s. "
- University of Akron's Mark Shermis, on a computer's evaluation of the Gettysburg Address
I've often thought it was a good thing Lincoln had a frontier education. More clear thinking. More clarity of action. Our kids are on the tech frontier and will reject the criticism of an algorithm that is from the past, traditional and can't think; just like they reject intolerant and backword teachers.
We won't be climbing the ladder of Bloom's Taxonomy if we remain super-glued to written on the lower rungs of convention and sentence structure without the inspiration of living language. Woops, that was another metaphor a computer couldn't evaluate.
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| Man, I only got a 3 on the Writing Rubric. |
"Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."
Love's Labour's Lost -- Act I, Scene II
Almost funny how William's words would end in the clutches of a computer program--maybe Word's Labour's Lost?
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Citing Sources: MLA and APA Styles (Essay, Research Paper)
Citing references in a persuasive essay.
https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/c.php?g=563800&p=4339726
APA Citation Guide: In-Text Citations (How to Cite Within your Paper)
MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html
Why Cite Sources
Why Cite Sources
Once you have located and read an adequate number of sources, incorporated ideas from your reading with your own understanding of the topic, and presented your analysis of your topic in a research paper, it is essential to cite the sources and you must use the proper bibliographic format to do so.
The main reason for citing your sources is to give credit to those authors whose ideas you used in your research. Even when you do not quote directly from another work, if reading that source contributed to the ideas presented in your paper, you must give the authors proper credit by including their work in your bibliography. Citing your sources allows readers of your work to easily find the sources to which you've referred.
If you do not cite the sources upon which your research is based, you will be guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism is using the ideas and writings of others and representing them as your own. Even if you do not copy another source word-for-word, but rather rephrase the source without attributing it to the original author by including a citation, you are guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic standards and is punishable with a failing grade, possible expulsion from the institution, and may subject you to ostracism by your peers. The increasing availability of electronic information has unfortunately made it easy to copy another author's works.
(This information was created by Eric Brenner)
Saturday, June 29, 2019
The Human Side of Assessing Writing
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| Commas, all I can think about is commas. |
I've seen what those programs did to the Gettysburg Address. Low scores for brevity and poor sentence structure, no doubt. "I Have A Dream," I bet too much repetition and veering off the main topic. We won't consider what a computer would try to do to poetry--ha, it kind of makes me laugh--the overload e e cummings would give it (just on written conventions!)
Can we trust our kids' thought development to a computer program?
1. The Algorithm Didn’t Like My Essay
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/business/essay-grading-software-as-teachers-aide-digital-domain.html?_r=1&ref=education
|
| No points for free indirect discourse, Jane. |
Even English teachers have different perspectives on writing. I've worked with English teachers that will say, "Oh, I don't like poetry." How can that be? How can a person with no taste for the higher developed thoughts of man train young people to be eloquent? How can a machine with no soul?
2. Computers Grade Essays Fast ... But Not Always Well
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/07/154452475/computers-grade-essays-fast-but-not-always-well
The choice of words (and using written conventions, sentence structure, new use of vocabulary) to express thought really need an educated, well-read person to analyze it. And a person tolerant of new ideas. Are we looking for Data from Star Trek? He couldn't even use a contraction or understand an idiom.
Don't we want our kids to create new idioms?
|
| What do they mean, "Miss Bronte, Wuthering Heights too emotional?" |
"There's a terrible tendency to confuse raising standards with standardizing."
— Sir Ken Robinson
Yes, Sir Ken, standardizing the genius of the next generation will only make them really bored with education. And finding a new venue to express themselves besides traditional school. I think maybe they've already found the acceptance of new ideas online.
|
| I scored 3 on the rubric, same as the Emancipation Proclamation? |
"On a scale of 1 to 6, one of the greatest presidents of the United States was only getting 2s and 3s. "
- University of Akron's Mark Shermis, on a computer's evaluation of the Gettysburg Address
I've often thought it was a good thing Lincoln had a frontier education. More clear thinking. More clarity of action. Our kids are on the tech frontier and will reject the criticism of an algorithm that is from the past, traditional and can't think; just like they reject intolerant and backword teachers.
We won't be climbing the ladder of Bloom's Taxonomy if we remain super-glued to written on the lower rungs of convention and sentence structure without the inspiration of living language. Woops, that was another metaphor a computer couldn't evaluate.
|
| Man, I only got a 3 on the Writing Rubric. |
"Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."
Love's Labour's Lost -- Act I, Scene II
Almost funny how William's words would end in the clutches of a computer program--maybe Word's Labour's Lost?
Friday, June 21, 2019
A Writing Prompt to Really Get To Know Your Students
"Three Things I Want You To Know About Me."
I came up with this prompt while teaching high school, but it works with younger kids, too. It gives the students a choice of what to comment on, and allows them to use their own voice to tell it like it feels. You may learn a lot about music, sports, and their dog; but sometimes you will also learn about very serious topics like family crisis or illness. And at times the school can help the families. But you will know the students better, especially if you actually read the essays and comment on them. The kids feel very validated, and more willing to write the remainder of the year no matter what the topic.
|
| Jim Abbott of the Yankees, pitching a no-hitter. |
I especially enjoyed when the students shared their dreams for their future. You would be amazed how many major league baseball players (of the future) were in my seventh grade classes. Far be it from me to say otherwise. Who knows, anyway? If Jim Abbott, who had only one hand due to a birth defect, became a major league pitcher, shouldn't I be like his grown-ups and be filled with encouragement for kids' dreams?
Suggestions: How to Direct Students Writing Research Papers
How to Write a Research Paper in 11 Steps
Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
Teacher Guide for Teaching Research
Students As Authentic Researchers: A New Prescription for the High School Research Assignment
Sample Guideline Research Paper: English 10
Sample Guideline RESEARCH PAPER: English 10
Sample Eleventh Grade Research Writing Student Handbook
Sample MLA Formatted Paper
And here is great input from our friends.
How to Make Writing Research Papers Relevant for Students
8 Reasons Why Students Should Still Write Research Papers
And never forget to encourage your student writers that they are well able to discover information and brilliantly express important ideas in clarity with confidence. Write on!
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Educational Links 5/12/19
“It’s a Spectrum” Doesn’t Mean What You Think
What Students Really Think of Their Teachers When It Comes to Edtech and Learning
Blended Learning Built on Teacher Expertise
Free Online Assistive Technology Tools to Help With Reading, Writing and Math
Finding a Way to Stay:
Making a Path for
Sustainable Teaching
Trouble Expressing Ideas in Writing: What You Need to Know
'Editing kills primary pupils' love of writing'
We try to build up pupils' enthusiasm for writing in primary – and then destroy it by demanding multiple rewrites, says Jo Brighouse.
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