Writing week nine

Originality reports and evaluating information

Review some of the points that we've covered in previous sessions:

What is paraphrasing, why is it important and how do we do it?
What's the difference between poor academic practice and plagiarism?
How can the University's Harvard Referencing Guide help with avoid these things?
What was the 'tightrope' that we referred to in the last session?

Begin activities on using originality reports

How many questions did you get right from the quiz on page one, and how confident do you feel about using Turnitin?
Compare your notes from looking at the six excerpts of similarity reports on page two. Which did you think were acceptable and why?
Compare your notes from page four on the following questions:
- What does it mean for something to be 'peer-reviewed', and why is this kind of publication more valuable when writing assignments?
- What's the best way of finding peer-reviewed material?
- Why is typing your essay question into Google not a good way of researching your assignment?

You're going to try writing a short paragraph using the paraphrasing skills we've been looking at so far. We're then going to generate a similarity report on Google Classrooms.
First, choose one of the paragraphs from the article on international working hours. Remember that we already looked at several paraphrases of paragraph 4, so choose a different one for this exercise.
Once you've read the article and understood its main point, write a short paragraph summarising its content. Remember all the paraphrasing strategies we've covered so far.
When you've finished the paragraph (it doesn't have to be perfect!), we're going to go through the process of uploading it to a submission point on Google Classroom, as you'll do for your assignments.
Finally, open your similarity report and compare in groups. Have you paraphrased effectively?

Teacher's notes

Complete the evaluating information page on the library's Skills Guide website. Please also read the Academic Sources section of the page.
If you're already familiar with peer review and would like to read a critique of the process, read this blog post (also accessible via the academic skills site).

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