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Sunday, October 07, 2007

6S <3 distressing language errors

~ “Confucius” is often misspelled as “Confucious” and the adjective “Confucian” is often misspelled as “Confucion”.

~ The word “think-tanks” has the greatest number of misspelled variations – “think-thanks”; “tink-thanks”; “tink-tanks”… etc. Shudder.

- Many students seem to know the author of Passage 1 personally and refer to him using his first name “Guy”. Conventions in Western academic writing require one to refer to an author using either the full name or the last name – although exceptions could be made for writers of non-Western origins whose names follow the patronymic system in which the “last name” is actually the first name of one’s father – eg. Sumana (son of Rajarethnam).

the teacher who wrote the comments for GP prelims is so acerbic, that it's funny!
haha random post :P

anyway check out what IJ did! They experimented on trying to use SecondLife to carry out GP discussions and whatever :O it's quite a long report, but this is rather amusing too:

Evaluating on-going performance

Even though students did have to reflect on the content and nature of their online interaction, there was sometimes a mismatch between their perceptions of the depth and complexity of the ideas discussed during their online conversations as captured in the reflections they penned down after their experience in the virtual world and what we discovered in the logged text. Even those assigned as student observers in Term 1 could not fully appreciate the range of views represented in the online interactions. It might have been a simple problem of recall. It would probably have been better if we had churned out the logged texts of their online conversations and gotten them to analyse their own conversations. This would have facilitated their understanding of what they were discussing at a meta textual level and supported evaluation of their own performance.