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Grammar and Linguistics > Help me please!
Help me please!
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szamoca
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Help me please!
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Dear Colleagues,
I �m just correcting some compositions and some of my Ss copied pharagraphs from the internet. I wonder what do you do if you realise anything like this?
I usually ask them to tell a few things about the text they �ve handed in and then it turns out everything. They get a bad mark.
One more thing:
Please tell me if the following sentence is correct
Teachers have to be a match for the group!
thanks
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18 Sep 2010
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blunderbuster
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Honestly, this calls for a regulatory measure.
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18 Sep 2010
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ELOJOLIE274
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usually, when I ask my pupils to write a text about a particular subject - let �s say a biography of their favourite actor - I always say before they start working on it "if it �s not your own work you will get a 0" (so that they know they can �t copy and paste a text from a website, or ask a friend to write it for them) - obviously they are allowed to find information on the internet, but they must never copy and paste a text - or worse: write a text in french and then translate it with google...
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18 Sep 2010
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puddyd
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Get them to hand in their first draft/brainstorm/rough copy, together with their final copy and tell them that there are marks for everything and more for the rough version showing how they edited it and better still have them peer edit and get the ss to sign it.
Good luck it �s always difficult, but if you give them the zero they deserve for plagiarsm, they �re not going to try it again in a rush. |
18 Sep 2010
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szamoca
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Thanks all of you! Good idea puddyd!
What about the sentence?It is from one of my intermediate S �s composition that she wrote on why to choose teachership.
My problem is with the expression a match for.
Can teachers be a match for their groups? It just doesn �t sound good. I �ve checked the dictionary, googled it but I �m not convinced that it �s correct.
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18 Sep 2010
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