research @ essex

Videos for Lecture on Accents

Introdution to IT at the University of Essex

Created with Padlet

Why Students Plagiarise : Webcast

Plagiarism : Stopping Word Thieves

Prezi links

Loanwords on Prezi

IA184 Session 4

Shimpei's Global Poverty Presentation

Ben's Lehman Brother Presentation

Ben's Greek Debt Crisis Presentation

International Academy - an example to work on

One for us to work on together

Skydrive folder with videos of Prezi presentations

An argument

Click here for a script of this Monty Python sketch.

Presentations

Which of the following three presentations from TED.com do you think is best and why? Please leave a comment below.

Questionnaire Critiquing Task

Clicking on the Word icon below should open up an example of an extremely flawed questionnaire. What problems can you find within it?  What advice can you give me for improving the questionnaire?  Please post your thoughts as comments below.  I'm sure that together we can find at least 10 things to improve.



Meanwhile, two links that you might find useful: Survey Monkey, for creating online questionnaires, and the Academic Phrasebank, for vocabulary that should be useful when writing your project report.

Adrian Slater - Too Many Rights and Not Enough Resolution

Adrian Slater - “Too many rights and not enough resolution” from PlagiarismAdvice on Vimeo.

Jude Carroll - Plagiarism is an international issue

Jude Carroll - ‘Plagiarism is an International Issue’ from PlagiarismAdvice on Vimeo.

Adrian Slater - Going on a plagiarist "outing"

Adrian Slater - Going on a plagiarist "outing" - Nudge, judge, and sue from PlagiarismAdvice on Vimeo.

ESAP at the IA

The purpose of this post is to provide backup for my talk "ESAP at the IA" for the Azeri group of visitors to the International Academy. The following are links to teaching and learning resources:

• My Skydrive with some sample teaching materials
• my online learning resources blog
• Online Ethics Centre for Engineering Research
• Our sadly neglected Graduate Diploma EAP Blog

The Essentials of Academic Writing

Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies

Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation

Vocabulary-related links

Five links to online resources related to vocabulary development are below.  We have looked at all of these together in class:

- The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- The Oxford Collocations Dictionary
- The Academic Word List Highlighter
- Google Fight
- Wordle

Graduate Diploma Week One : Suggested Sources for Reading Diaries

The Economist, Financial Times, and New Scientist websites are good sources of texts for students to use for reading diaries. Articles you might find interesting from the Economist website right now are:

• Hot spots and blind spots : The mounting human costs of Japan's nuclear disaster.
• Not just rubies and polyester shirts : an article about the Indian economy
• Now is the time - an article about "women and the Arab awakening"

And from New Scientist (which isn't just for scientists):

• Drowning a sea of misinformation - about problems that museums face
• Cops on trail of crimes that haven't happened - about some computer software designed to identify places where crimes might be committed

You could also visit the BBC, Guardian, Independent, or Telegraph websites for current news stories.  The Guardian, for example, has a story about how rents in Britain have become unaffordable for many families and a bizarre tale of a man who somehow managed to use a shark as a surfboard.

Reading lists from the university module directory are also a good indicator of the types of texts students need to deal with in their postgraduate studies.  For more general news from the University,Essex Quarterly is an interesting publication with short articles, primarily about research conducted at the university.

Error correction : choosing the active or passive voice

The problems in the following examples relate to your choice of either the passive or active voice for your verb phrases.  Can you identify the problems and suggest corrections as comments below?

1. The Olympic Games with its long history has always been attracted by people as an entertaining and social event

2. 44,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer annually in the UK

3. Protein foods are advised to be included in your breakfast since it provides sustained energy and takes longer to digest

4. Skipping breakfast become an issue to be widely discussed

5. missions are always taken place in the most difficult situations.  

6. it is not justified for the government to provide more funding for dementia

Error correction : referencing

Can you see any problems with the following examples from your writing?  Look for examples of ACCORDING TO in an article you are reading for your project and tell me (via comments below) what you think is wrong with these examples.  How would you correct them?

1. According to (Essex Quarterly, 2011) over 44,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer annually in the UK, while 12,500 women die every year from the disease.

2. According to the research published in Essex Quarterly, the study was conducted on more than 4,000 children by looking at key factors contributing to their general health included weight and physical activity.

3.According to “fighting the demon of dementia”, the author states that 820,000 people in the UK suffer from dementia and the number will increase to one million in 2025 and two billion in 2050.