Chat with AIExam 4: The Writing Process
How should you indicate a quotation in your notes? Why is this important?
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VerifiedEnclose it in quotation marks ('…') and add the bibliographic information, including the page number if appropriate. Stress the importance of clearly differentiating quoted material from personal notes; point out that if students don't do this, they risk quoting material inadvertently without attributing it. This is plagiarism: a serious academic offence. Adding the bibliographic information when first noting the quotation not only helps emphasise that the material is a quotation, but more importantly means if a student wants to incorporate the quotation in an assignment the required referencing information is already at hand. Trying to locate the source of a quotation can be frustrating and time-consuming.
As an aside, you might point out that quotations in assignments should be used sparingly, if at all. Quotations do not demonstrate a student has understood what has been said, and integrating a quotation into an assignment can be surprisingly difficult.
What do you see as the key differences between drafting and editing?
(34) VerifiedWhen drafting, the focus is on generating content, i.e. getting ideas down. Style, grammar, spelling, and punctuation are unimportant at this stage, and attention to these can impede the generation of ideas. In contrast, these aspects form the focus of editing. Although drafting and editing are best kept separate, this does not mean all the drafting must be done before any editing begins. A session (or several) of drafting might be followed by a session of editing, then more drafting, and so on. While this is probably not ideal because switching between the mindset for drafting and that for editing can take time, switching between different but related tasks can improve learning. Also, while editing new ideas can arise and recording these (a drafting process) is paramount - an idea unrecorded for more than a minute will almost certainly be forgotten. In short, while drafting, stay focused on drafting, but while editing, be prepared to switch back to drafting.
List a number of key things you need to do before you start searching for information.
(30) VerifiedThe two essential things students must learn to do are to think carefully about the requirements of the assignment and to plan the entire process. Section 5.1 of Writing Guidelines for Business Students, 5th edition, lists four key questions a student should ask at the start of any assignment and also discusses how to identify implicit questions in a task statement, while Chapter 5 as a whole clearly
identifies the stages of the entire process and therefore forms an excellent framework for planning.
Think about your own writing process in the past. In the light of this chapter, how could you improve your writing process? Make a note of any changes you could make that would improve your writing process.
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