THE TEMPTATION Have you ever accidentally plagiarised or considered buying an essay? Why? The pressure of achieving good grades. Juggling work and study. Time pressure. Writer’s block. Stress. Anxiety. Deadlines. No other options. Plagiarism happens for many reasons and can be the side-effect of feeling stressed and stuck with only one way out:…
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5 writing tools to help your students beat learning loss
“Given the ongoing shutdowns and the cumulative impact of learning loss, it is too early to fully assess the pandemic’s impact on student learning. Most countries suspended their usual year-end assessments and examinations at the end of the last school year, and some also chose to forgo regular formative assessments when students returned to class.…
Do this over summer to get a head start on next semester
It’s finally the summer holidays! While it’s important to take time off and look after your mental health, it can also be helpful to do a few small things during the summer break. This will give you a leg up when school starts up again this year (maybe even in person!) so that you don’t…
Grading Writing: Creativity, Subjectivity, & Building Confidence
When we write for school are we being creative or formulaic? When it’s not a creative writing class, can academic writing still rely on our imaginations? These are questions I am constantly asked. As a defender of academic or scholarly writing, I am often confronted by people who see “creative” writing on…
3 Top Tips for Your College Essays
Writing for college or university is usually a little bit different from high school writing. At college, you want to show your professors that you are capable of mastering university-level content and critical thinking, which is displayed in acts of academic writing. So how can you be successful as a college or university…
How to Analyze Poetry
Analyzing poetry is no easy feat. How can we read meandering lines of words, sometimes that rhyme and sometimes not, with opaque imagery and symbols and make sense of it all as a coherent whole? How do we even start? Sure, there are always those students in class who seem to easily “get” poetry,…
Validating Your Sources for Online Research
Okay, we have all heard about so-called fake news at this point, and we all know that everything we find and read on the internet isn’t always true. But how can we evaluate online sources for school and make sure that we’re accessing appropriate information? It’s not always easy to tell a fake news site…