writing

Academic English as seen by @joshuarothman #appliedlinguistics #writing

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Humanities School, Universidad de Murcia “Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish—but that’s because academia has become that way, too. Today’s academic work, excellent though it may be, is the product of a shrinking system. It’s a tightly-packed, super-competitive jungle in there”. Read the … Read more

Plagiarism in second-language writing Language Teaching journal @cup

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  From the Cambridge Extra blog:   In our state-of-the-art article ‘Plagiarism in second-language writing’ we trace the development of plagiarism as a research topic in L2 writing, discussing the received view of plagiarism as a transgressive act and alternative understandings which have been presented in the L1 and L2 writing literature. The article then … Read more

Referencing and Citation Style Guides: MLA. APA. CSE. Chicago

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Published by opencolleges.edu.au : Those are the four main styles used when writing professionally or academically. Students will need to use one of these standard styles, so it’s important that you at least have a familiarity with them. That’s why we created this webpage, which pulls together style guide resources from all over into one convenient … Read more

#CALLabstracts EFL writing revision with blind expert and peer review using a CMC open forum

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This cites “The types and effects of native speakers’ feedback on CMC“ Language, Learning & Technology article. This exploratory computer assisted-language learning (CALL) study used a computer-mediated communication (CMC) interface to allow English as a foreign language (EFL) writing students in classes at two universities to give each other anonymous peer feedback about essay-writing assignments … Read more