Hi everyone,
Further to the posts about the writing criteria and error correction, I was wondering how you'll feel about the following suggestion.
Any student who would like to have all her/his posts under the scrutinising eyes of the other students, can express so in this thread. For example, a student considers that she/he wants to improve the quality of his writing and volunteers to have all her/his posts discussed by other students. That will mean that the students will read all posts made so far by the student in question and comment on the quality of her/his posts.
The students can then discuss the good points of the writing as well as provide suggestions if there are any shortcomings. This will give feedback on the quality of the writing and generate discussions in class.
In the meantime, can I encourage you to go back to the post about the writing criteria and continue with the discussion about what accounts for a good writing. This will give us clear guidelines for the assessment.
Keep writing!
Warm regards,
ralitza
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Previous research has shown that writers and editors of all ages and abilities have trouble correcting errors in texts. In some study, they were interested in discovering whether people do not correct these errors mainly because (1) they do not have the knowledge to correct them, or because (2) even though they do have the knowledge to correct the errors, they do not use it. The first case would point to aknowledge deficit, or a deficit at the cognitive level; the second case would point to aprocessing deficit, or a deficit at the metacognitive level. The study compared the number and type of implanted errors corrected by high school and college subjects working on two different texts under three different conditions. they found that, for both ages, the biggest stumbling block in correcting errors was not the knowledge of how to correct them, but rather a failure to detect them: They did not use their available knowledge to find the errors. This processing deficit may be the result of a dearth of available error-finding strategies, or knowledge may not be activated because of lack of motivation or because of a failure to perceive the nature of the task.
Hi Walid,
Would you like to be the first whose posts will be examined carefully and you 'll get feedback on what you can improve?
Like for example, if you quote something you should always provide a link to the article so the interested reader can pursue it.
I think it is important and I also encourage students to express their opinion of how this might relate to them/their life/the task on hand.
Regards and see on Monday!
Keep writing!
hi again
i forgat adding the resource and i would like to thank ralitza to remmeber me that
this is the resources
www.springerlink.com/content/h52747666p726254/
thanks
Thanks Walid,
It is necessary to properly reference information to avoid plagiarism.
I'll have a look at the article, thank you.
Actually, we still need to discuss the writing criteria and whether error correction is important and for what.
We can talk about it tomorrow as well.
Regards,
ralitza
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