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Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Crossman, Katherine; Behjat, Laleh; Yates, Robin Michael; Fear, Elise; Trifkovic, Milana – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2020
This institutional self-study investigated the use of text-matching software (TMS) to prevent plagiarism by students in a Canadian university that did not have an institutional license for TMS at the time of the study. Assignments from a graduate-level engineering course were analyzed using iThenticate®. During the initial phase of the study,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Plagiarism, College Students, Engineering Education
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Liso, Vincenzo – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The organization of knowledge influences how effectively students learn, so that if the information is well structured and the knowledge acquisition process is carried out in a systemic way, one can more effectively retrieve pieces of knowledge. To tackle this problem a common document format used in academia, IMRaD (Introduction, Method, Results,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Hsiao, Cheng-Hua – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
MA students often find writing the discussion section of a thesis (hereafter discussion writing) a difficult task (Bitchener & Basturkmen, 2006). Thesis advisors, research writing instructors, and graduate students are able to recognize the strength and weakness of discussion writing through established levels of quality. Therefore, grading…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Discussion
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Harada, Oriko; Kashihara, Akihiro – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2020
Web-based investigative learning is a form of learning where learners investigate Web resources to construct knowledge on a question. In our previous work, we have designed a learning model and a cognitive tool named iLSB to support learners in expanding the initial question into sub-questions so as to deepen and widen their investigation, and in…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Web Based Instruction, Web Sites, Learning Experience
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Zare-ee, Abbas; Hejazi, S. Yahya – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Acknowledgement appears at the forefront of the high-stakes academic genre of thesis/dissertation writing. Previous research shows the generic structure of acknowledgements written by native Persian postgraduate students contains a 'thanking-God move', absent in native English speakers' acknowledgements. In an approximate replication of Hyland's…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, English, Indo European Languages
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Wuttisrisiriporn, Niwat – English Language Teaching, 2017
Genre analysis is today's dominant approach for textual analysis, especially in the ESP learning and teaching profession. Adopting this approach, the present study compares the Introduction chapters of MA theses in ELT (English Language Teaching) written by Thai students to those written by American university students based on the move-step…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Models