By gisseduc on October 26, 2013
An LLED research project, “Intertextual authorship in university writing across disciplinary and cultural contexts (Phase 1)”, is seeking participants. The purpose of the study is to facilitate teaching paraphrasing by identifying how students and professors in different cultural and disciplinary contexts understand paraphrasing in relation to individual authorship. Requirements: you need to be currently enrolled in a graduate course at UBC that has a term paper or research paper assignment. You will receive a UBC bookstore gift certificate of $30 for your participation in 1 interview. Click here for more information.
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By gisseduc on October 21, 2013
Location: Graduate Student Centre, Point Grey Campus
Offered by: Graduate Pathways to Success and International Student Development
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013 – 9:30am – 12:30pm
Website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events…
Almost one-third of graduate students at UBC are international and come from over 100 different countries. This creates unique challenges – and opportunities – for succeeding as a grad student amongst similarly diverse peers, supervisors, and students. Through interactive activities and discussions, this workshop provides tools to help students overcome cultural misunderstanding in order to succeed as researchers, instructors, colleagues…and beyond. More info
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By gisseduc on September 27, 2013
Organizing and Evaluating Ideas in Research-based Academic Writing
This workshop will help participants’ understanding and practice in two crucial areas of their research-based academic writing: the organization of the message and the writer’s evaluation of knowledge claims. Work on organization involves identifying and addressing two areas: the preview and review of ideas in the text, and issues with the flow of ideas that often arise in drafts. As time permits, the workshop also focuses on the writer’s options for appropriately evaluating their knowledge claims and outside research studies that are cited. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring a sample of their academic writing to the workshop.
Facilitator: Alfredo Ferreira is a Ph.D. Candidate in UBC’s Department of Language and Literacy Education. His teaching experience encompasses English for academic purposes, academic writing in university, and the role of language across academic disciplines. Alfredo has taught research-based academic writing in the UBC-Ritsumeikan University Global Citizenship Program, in a leading research university in Japan, and in intensive workshops for UBC graduate students.
Snacks and drinks will be served.
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By gisseduc on July 9, 2012
Christine was born and raised in Mexico City, where she worked as an English teacher for over 10 years (plus an exciting year she taught in China!). In 2009, she started her MEd in Human Development, Learning and Culture (HDLC) in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education (ECPS). As a graduate student, she was a research assistant for Drs. Shelley Hymel’s and Kimberly Schonert-Reichl’s labs, and co-authored a book review published in English and Spanish. For two years, she was a volunteer cast member of the Vagina Monologues, a production by student-led group UBC VDay that raises funds and awareness to help stop violence against women and girls. In her spare time, she also volunteered at the Intergenerational Landed Learning Project at the UBC farm.
Christine’s grad student life was marked by her student job. She worked as the Coordinator of the Graduate Student Council, advocating for student voice and representation across the Faculty of Education, for two years. One of her biggest accomplishments was to ensure that Education grad students were represented at the UBC-wide Graduate Student Society. She also co-coordinated the American Educational Research Association Grad Student Council’s 2012 community service project: a youth mural in the City of Surrey to promote understanding and diversity, to be installed in the fall.
To end her degree on a high note, she volunteered to be the May 2012 Convocation Speaker, and dazzled everyone at the Chan Centre with a beautiful speech. As you can tell, Christine’s motto is “The best way to have a positive impact is to be engaged.”
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By gisseduc on May 10, 2012
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By gisseduc on May 8, 2012
Tags indicating countries represented at the Orientation for International Students in the Faculty of Education September 2011.
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By gisseduc on May 8, 2012
October 21, 2011.
School of social sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden
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By gisseduc on May 8, 2012
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