Activity Ideas
Provide an except of an essay as well as a quotation from an outside source and ask the learner to integrate the quote into the excerpt using drag and drop.
Provide a thesis statement or research question as well as the outline for the paper in a mixed up order. Have the student put the outline in the correct order using drag and drop.
Provide a source and ask the student how they would record it in their notes using multiple choice. Provide meaningful feedback.
Provide a "piece of paper" with the various things the learner would need to write down about a source such as title, author, quotations, "my thoughts", etc. Then have the learner roll over those various elements to see what the actual notes would look like.
Give the learner a quotation from information source along with the bibliographic information for the quotation. Show the learner three different examples of how the quote was incorporated into a paper and ask them to identify which example was properly paraphrased. Provide meaningful feedback.
- Where Should the In-Text Citations Go?
Provide the learner with a paragraph written by a "student." Ask the learner to click on the parts of the paragraph where an in-text citation is missing. be sure to tell the learner how many in-text citations are missing and provide meaningful feedback.
