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Videos:

Recording of our online Workshop

Strategic Questioning Video

• PowerPoint slides for Strategic Questioning Using The So What Model 

• Transcription for the Strategic Questioning video  [pdf]

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Presentation:

Interactive Activity:

Practise how to use sources in your writing. Below is some academic text and there are 11 questions to answer about it. 

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Fazey & Fazey (2001, 345-346) give a description of the key features of autonomy, and these have much in common with the picture of motivation given in this section:

Autonomous people are intrinsically motivated, perceive themselves to be in control of their decision-making take responsibility for the outcomes of their actions and have confidence in themselves.

There is a problem with measuring autonomy which is related to a view that autonomy must be self-initiated. According to Deci et al.'s (1991) view of autonomy and motivation, autonomy requires intrinsic motivation, and intrinsic motivation requires that learners have both the will to make their own choices and the freedom to exercise that will. As Lamb (2009, 71) points out "intrinsic motivation can be stifled if a person is not allowed to be actively self-determining”. There are clear implications for measuring autonomy as it may restrict the learners' freedom. Benson (2001, 52) also arguing that autonomy must be self-initiated, says:

the essence of genuinely autonomous behaviour is that it is self-initiated rather than generated in response to a task in which the observed behaviours are either explicitly or implicitly required

He is referring to situations where a researcher or teacher requires a learner to perform some task so that he/she can be observed and assessed for the autonomy displayed.

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Download Files:

• Our How-To Guide on incorporating sources and avoiding plagiarism:  this has lots of useful information about plagiarism and how to avoid it. [pdf]

• The Library's Complete Guide to LSBU Harvard referencing. [pdf]

Useful links:

• Skills for Success - Mini-Module: Avoiding Plagiarism. Has individual sections giving more detail about all the ways of incorporating sources and avoiding plagiarism
• Skills for Success Online - How to Write in your own Words. Find out more about paraphrasing and summarising.
• LSBU Library Subject Guides:  Essential information and resources for all LSBU subjects resources
• Common mistakes and the benefits of referencing from The University of Essex
• A useful table from The University of Leeds 
• Glasgow Caledonian University Citing and Referencing: Clear advice and examples
• University of North Carolina: Detailed explanation of plagiarism

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