Get your classmates interested in what you’re presenting by using these activities! BUT whatever game you pick, make sure it is either about TEACHING knowledge or TESTING knowledge and isn’t just for the fun of it. *** Make sure you TEST your game before presentation day. *** Things often go wrong. Learning Games: Go to…
Category: Study Skills
Online Language Checkers
Hemingway App http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ I recommend Hemingway Editor for finding run on sentences or improving readability and clarity: REWORDIFY https://rewordify.com/ Rewordify is good for reading difficult texts. Use it to show up hard words. You can also use it to improve your readability and clarity. GRAMMARLY https://grammarly.com/ The free version of Grammarly will check Spelling, Grammar…
Revision Tips
Mnemonics Mnemonics are memory devices. For example, FANBOYS is a mnemonic for remembering the Coordinating Conjunctions. Create an Acronym to help you remember a list. RECOMMEND: This website helps you come up with acronyms: http://www.joglab.com/wordfinder.htm
Avoiding Plagiarism
Is your work plagiarised? Your teachers will use a program like PlagScan or Turnitin to check your work. Unfortunately these are licensed, so you can’t check it yourself. Instead, try one of these free online checkers: https://plagiarismdetector.net/ or https://www.quetext.com/. Think you know what plagiarism is? Can you pass this quiz about plagiarism? http://en.writecheck.com/plagiarism-quiz No, you can’t copy…
Writing Clarity and Readability
Checking Readability and Clarity Use this checklist to improve your sentences for clarity: Use this Readability Checker to find out the reading age of your text: http://www.readabilityformulas.com/free-readability-formula-tests.php Hemingway Editor will help you identify cluttered sentences: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
Referencing
Go to this page for information about avoiding plagiarism and paraphrasing. How to format references: How to use Word to do Referencing (Ms Roberts PowerPoint): If you don’t need In Text Citations, you can use CiteThisForMe.com to do your bibliography for you. SACE guide to Referencing: https://www.sace.sa.edu.au/documents/652891/722147/Student+Guide+to+Referencing.pdf/50c39188-4415-42e5-a7e6-fa326ec9aaff Here’s a video to using Word for referencing:…
Ms Roberts' Lesson Stuff 