May 11 we had another presential class.
At the beginning of the class we checked fragments from your profiles (for generic/specific reference, use of commas after however, the need for elegant variation etc.) There was a handout with excerpts from your profiles .
In that same track, we made specific reference to NOT joining sentences with commas (unless it is the case of short sentences in a series like “vim,vi,venci”/ veni, vidi,vincit / I came , I saw, I conquered (Julius Ceasar). This is a figure of speech called Asyndeton or No-Ands.
Some of you are doing this (even in Portuguese, I guess). In normal life situations this should be avoided and it receives the name of “comma splice”(= join with commas).
TASK A for June 1 : Watch the following video and WRITE A SMALL REPORT on “being aware of comma splices”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Rl9ZwlF5s
Then we did some work on how to avoid plagiarism
TASK B for June 1 : Watch the following video and WRITE A SMALL REPORT on “plagiarizing from the internet” ( Internet plagiarism out of ignorance and not because of intent of cheating) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jemg2dytNjE
TASK C for June 1 : Do the following online exercises and write a small report about your score. Yo do not have to give me the actual sentences from the exercise, just your report.
- 8 fragments of a paragraph to be cheked for plagiarism:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~geotel/plagiarism.html
- 4 small texts to be checked. The first one admits more than one answer. You can mark them all :
https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/plagiarism/exercise/index.html
