Cornelia Pokrzywa's Blog (4)

Welcome to the new Ning members! Summer 2009 TCs, I am looking for researchers who want to participate in my Rochester Oral History Archive project. I will have WRT 160 students working on the project as part of their community engagement component. If you are seeking a community engagement component for your students, please contact me so we can discuss details. The Rochester Oral History Archive: Project to Preserve Oral Histories of Rochester Residents In partnership with the Meadow Brook W… Continue

As I gather K-12 plagiarism sources and begin interviewing students, my own kids wanted in on the action. I'm not planning to put them in my "real" research, so we worked on this video just for fun. Enjoy! Continue

I gathered student interviews on the topic of plagiarism and found that many students can easily define the basic concepts, but still have difficulty understanding that definitions can shift depending on context. For example, the definition of common knowledge varies widely between handbooks, electronic resources, and instructors. It's not unusual for a student to be told that common knowledge is anything you "already know" -- without realizing that this writer-oriented definition may leave the… Continue

...this isn't writing, is it? Continue