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Wanted: paraphrase teaching tool
Browsing online late last night, I came across a Javascript tool for distinguishing between two text strings and an implementation of corrected code that works great as a check on paraphrasing. I need to modify this for students at some point, as a task (and then put breadcrumbs back to the programmers who did this, […]
Midterm Commandments
Following Miriam Burstein, I’ll see how many commandments I need to etch in stone for my students at midterm time:
Student gripes
It seems a bit early to be hearing students complain about grades, but what do I know? There are various student gripes circulating around the net. And a colleague told me of a student who claimed that policies at my institution required that all grades be based on a 90%=A, 80%=B, etc., scale. (No, they […]
“Declining (x) literacy”
Now that Constitution Day is nearly upon us (tomorrow, folks, the 218th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, not that its signing had much historical significance—quick, what was the criterion for ratification?), the New York Times has its obligatory obeisance-and-reflection, which turns out to be a bunch of historically-unreflective pap about “historical literacy:” The […]
Plagiarism disorders
Just a brief entry: Margaret Soltan today discussed the plagiarism by Judith Kelly in her “memoir” Rock Me Gently: Again with the uncontrollable memory! What shall we call this? Incontinent mnemonism? Ah, yes, the “I wasn’t aware I was copying words” excuse I’ve heard a few times from some of my enrollees (which is different […]