Writings to be Evaluated

1. The Writer in Me 2. Plagiarism: How it Has Affected Me 3. Bartholomae and I 4.  The Effectivity of Peer Reader Response

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Multi Genre Project

For this class, we had to conclude the course by creating a multi genre project. I decided to manage the topic of plagiarism when teaching writing. I will present to you part of the prologue and you keep on interested on my presentation you can click on the link below to view it completely. http://antiplagiarism.wordpress.com/

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Writing Activity Demonstration

As a teacher, I must be very creative with students, specially ESL learners when it comes to writing. Many of them seem quit resistant towards the writing process because, according to them, they do not know how to write well. Many of them have this problem and refuse to give writing a try due to [...]

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Presentation Peer Response in the Writing Classroom: Theoretic Foundations and New Directions Anne DiPardo; Sarah Warshauer Freedman

Definition of Collaborate Learning According to Freedman, a collaborate learning group is that which involves a group working together to solve a single problem or co- author of a single text. It is not to be confused with response groups which are members working with different individuals on their individually owned products Vigotsky’s Developmental Theory [...]

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The Effectivity of Peer Reader Response

Classrooms all around are composed of, not one, but of 20 to 30 students. Sometimes schools are over crowded and teachers are stuck with more work than what they bargained for. The amount of assignments that a teacher needs to grade and the amount of material that is required by the school district to cover [...]

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Bartholomae and I

“Welcome freshmen”, that’s what my forehead said when I got to college. New and exciting, scary and wonderful… that was the Colegio for me. When I got to the Colegio, I was enrolled in intermediate English. Buying books and reading poems was an entire new world for me, hence the fact that I had never [...]

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Plagiarism: How it Has Affected Me

Reflecting on Zean Swagerman Every teacher in the world, specially a beginner has always their first experience with a situation they clearly didn’t know how to deal with. My first year as an English teacher happened to be in my very own high school alma mater. I was excited to be the one teaching students [...]

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The Writer in Me!

It has taken me a long journey for me to get here, but I can say that I think I’ve made it. Reading and writing are not my specialties but when push comes to shove, I’m capable of doing so without breaking something. I like the things I read and I like the way I [...]

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