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PA189. Effectiveness of Scaffolding Techniques in Minimizing Plagiarism

Abstract

One of the most critical issues observed in students' writing is ‘plagiarism’ or their tendency to ‘copy and paste’ information without paraphrasing and proper referencing. This paper gives insight into the scaffolding process and describes the process of integrating scaffolds at different stages of writing and shows some authentic templates that were developed. This paper describes the effectiveness of using the scaffolding techniques in a writing course to minimize students’ plagiarism.

Presenter 1

Syeda Syadath Unissa, Ms.
Sohar Nursing Institute
Syeda Unissa is an English Tutor, with an M.Phil in ELT, Diploma in TESOL &  PGDTE.  Her specialties and areas of interests are Second Language Acquisition, Teaching Methodologies, Motivation, Learner-Centered and Task- based approaches, Patterns of Classroom Interaction with focus on Low Achievers.

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