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Lesson 4: Research and plan your blog

Year 7 – Using media – Gaining support for a cause

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Gaining support for a cause

Starter activity

Conduct research on the internet to help you find definitions for these three terms. Document your findings in your worksheet.
Don’t forget to reference your source.
Explorer task: Find an example that demonstrates your definition.

Citation
Plagiarism
Paraphrase

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Research

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Citation

“A word or piece of writing taken from a written work”

“All citations are taken from the 2007 edition of the text.”

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Research

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Paraphrase

“To repeat something written or spoken using different words, often in a humorous form or in a simpler and shorter form that makes the original meaning clearer”

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Research

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Plagiarism

“The process or practice of using another person’s ideas or work and pretending that it is your own”

“The techniques for detecting plagiarism are becoming increasingly advanced.”

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Lesson 4: Research and plan your blog

Objectives

In this lesson, you will:

Use citations and recognise the concept of plagiarism
Evaluate online sources

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Think, write, pair, share

Activity 1

Read the two poems
Write down your answer
When you’re ready, share your answer with the person next to you and discuss your thoughts

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Original poem	Alternative poem
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils;”	“I walked alone, as alone as a cloud That was floating over valleys and mountains When suddenly I saw a congregation A mass of yellow flowers”

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Think, write, pair, share

Activity 1

The alternative poem has been ________________.

Without ________, this is an example of __________________.

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Original poem	Alternative poem
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils;”	“I walked alone, as alone as a cloud That was floating over valleys and mountains When suddenly I saw a congregation A mass of yellow flowers”

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Think, write, pair, share

Activity 1

The alternative poem has been paraphrased.

Without ________, this is an example of __________________.

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Original poem	Alternative poem
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils;”	“I walked alone, as alone as a cloud That was floating over valleys and mountains When suddenly I saw a congregation A mass of yellow flowers”

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Think, write, pair, share

Activity 1

The alternative poem has been paraphrased.

Without citation, this is an example of __________________.

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Original poem	Alternative poem
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils;”	“I walked alone, as alone as a cloud That was floating over valleys and mountains When suddenly I saw a congregation A mass of yellow flowers”

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Think, write, pair, share

Activity 1

The alternative poem has been paraphrased.

Without citation, this is an example of plagiarism.

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Original poem	Alternative poem
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils;”	“I walked alone, as alone as a cloud That was floating over valleys and mountains When suddenly I saw a congregation A mass of yellow flowers”

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Evaluating blogs — work in pairs

Activity 2

Visit these blogs and look at the following:

Presentation and appearance
Image-to-text ratio
Are the images appropriate?
How were the sources cited?

Record your findings on the worksheet.

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Which blog?

Activity 2

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Which blog?

Activity 2

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Research your cause

Activity 3

Before you start researching your cause, think about how to evaluate the credibility of the information that you will come across.

Can you remember the four tips that you learnt about last lesson?

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Research your cause

Activity 3

Before you start researching your cause, think about how to evaluate the credibility of the information that you will come across.

Can you remember the four tips that you learnt about last lesson?

Check the author and the source
What’s the purpose of the article?
Check when the article was written
Check the facts

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Images

Don’t forget to use Creative Commons

Activity 3

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Research for your cause

Activity 3

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Article/website title	URL	Notes/quotations/who to credit or cite	Evaluate the credibility of the source. How can you prove that this is a reliable source?
Ghana businessman turns waste plastic into profit	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-44578522	“Plastic waste is becoming an increasing problem all over Africa, but in Ghana one man is turning it into a business opportunity. BBC Africa's One Minute Stories went to find out more.”	Written in June last year These facts also appear on other websites

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Exit ticket: Match the terms with the definitions

Plenary

What do the following sentences describe?

Referencing someone else’s work
When you use someone else’s work but change a few words, often with the intention of shortening the original piece of work
When you use someone else’s work but try to pass it off as your own original work

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Next lesson

Summary

In this lesson, you...

Used citations and recognised the concept of plagiarism

Evaluated online sources

Next lesson, you will…

Construct a blog

Create content for a blog based on credible sources

Apply referencing techniques that credit authors appropriately

Design the layout of the content to make it suitable for the audience

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