Wednesday, October 17, 2012

We reviewed a website called Notestar which allows the students to keep track of notes without having to use the old school notecards we are all used to. The student cuts and pastes the quote or info and then pastes the cite and viola an online notecard the student can print off and turn in is created. My old woman mentality is saying that's not fair. I remember having to learn MLA and APA style and making sure the period, quotations, underline, colons and semi colons were in the correct place.  Now it's done automatically. In discussing with the team how this will impact them being college ready, and how cutting and pasting is defeating the purpose of research we conducted a mini poll. We asked some of our college students, via text, what was the expectation in college. They replied yes, the  professors expect research papers. But the interesting part was the students said they had to learn on their own how to analyze. This only makes it more apparent to push writing in every class and hold them to a college level standard.   As a community we have utilized the expertise of our English teachers to ensure we are requiring from our students what professors are. We continue to strive towards improving writing and demanding the students learn to read and analyze then write.

1 comment:

  1. How do we get students to understand that cutting and pasting is ok for taking notes, but not acceptable for the actual paper?

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