Tag Archives: Academic Writing

The sincerest form of flattery

Our Teaching & Learning Showcase Series continued yesterday with a session on ‘Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin’. Turnitin is an online service which allows educators to check students’ work for similarity with other sources as a tool for … Continue reading

Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research, Training & resources | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Using technology to find low-tech solutions

Like a lot of people, I do not consider myself particularly savvy about technology: when I find that something is useful to me, I learn how to use it. That said, I think we can use learning technologies to come … Continue reading

Posted in Training & resources | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

… and now for a blog about blogs

Blogs providing a solution for a variety of academic projects. Blogs have been employed for some time within the University by a number of colleagues and more recently these have used as a means of feeding news, events and commentary … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Academic and Digital Literacies and Writing in the Disciplines

There is a new journal of Academic Writing it is open access and peer reviewed so readers can access the materials and have confidence in the fact that materials are reviewed. The first paper caught my attention as it mentioned … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 1 Comment