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An Introduction to Final Draft
Teach Authentic Academic Language
Develop Critical Thinkers
Avoid Plagiarism
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1. Teach Authentic Academic Language 2. Develop Better Critical Thinkers 3. Help Students Recognize and Avoid Plagiarism
INTRODUCTION
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3 Things Your Academic Writing Series Should Do But Doesn't
Data from our multi-billion word Corpus helps pinpoint the most common grammatical mistakes made by English language learners so that your students don’t repeat them. Help students sound more natural by introducing them to words, collocations and phrases that research shows they’ll encounter in an academic setting.
TEACH AUTHENTIC ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
Student Models
Students study specific applications of grammar for the writing task and learn to avoid common mistakes identified by the Cambridge Learner Corpus.
AVOID COMMON MISTAKES
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Avoid Common Mistakes
ACADEMIC PHRASES
Corpus Research
Corpus research identifies the most relevant academic vocabulary, collocations, and set academic phrases.
TEACHERS
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STUDENTS
Final Draft is based on research from the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a collection of student writing. To keep the corpus — and your Cambridge books — up to date, we need new submissions all the time. You can help.
The Research Continues With You
In every unit, students are shown the most impactful features of real-world and student writing models, then asked to think about why they’re successful. They don’t just mimic a model; they understand what makes it work in both academic and real-world contexts. This variety of models is unique to Final Draft, and helps prepare students for whatever writing they might encounter.
DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKERS
REAL WORLD MODELS
STUDENT MODELS
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Students learn not just how to read a model, but how to apply what they find to their own writing.
Annotations teach students how to analyze a student model in real time, helping them become more autonomous as they engage with future models they find in their own lives.
The Notice the Writing feature helps students think critically about what they’re reading rather than being given the information without any active thinking on their part.
Adapted pieces of writing motivate students by showing them that academic writing has applications in the real world.
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Final Draft is the only academic writing series that helps your students avoid the embarrassing and costly consequences of plagiarism from day 1. Every unit presents skills that empower your students to showcase their own ideas and avoid this all too common academic pitfall.
AVOID PLAGIARISM
Help Students Recognize and Avoid Plagiarism
Final Draft teaches plagiarism just like any other skill. Each exercise begins by introducing a common question from a student. The teacher then answers the question so that students understand what’s going on and why it’s important.
Final Draft provides clear, relevant examples of how to accomplish the skill being taught and gives students controlled practice activities to help them begin to apply the skill before they're asked to write.
This is Anna. Her students are hard-working, but in every course she teaches there are always a few times when she catches someone plagiarizing. She has to talk to the student, sometimes talk to the student's advisor, tell her coordinator, give the student a chance to re-write the assignment, check the new version for plagiarism, and then notify her coordinator and the student's advisor.
She teaches 3 classes in the fall, 3 in the spring, and 2 over the summer.
On average, a student plagiarizes 3 times in each course that she teaches.
Each time a student plagiarizes, it costs her around 4 hours.
=
96 hours
that she loses every year, just because her students plagiarize.
4 hours per student × 3 students per course × 8 courses per year
65 yrs
25 yrs
160 days!
That's
She started teaching when she was 25 and will retire at 65, so over the course of her 40-year career, plagiarism will cost her 3,840 hours of her life.
Think what else she could have done with that time. And what is her time worth? She got paid less when she was younger, will get paid more when she's older, but her average rate comes out to $40 per hour. This means that plagiarism will end up costing her $153,600.
Take a moment to think about how many hours you lose every year.
You deserve better. Final Draft can help.
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