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Conversations at the Center
Join us for coffee, cookies, and lots of conversation at the Center's Fall 2013 series with a range of topics offered to engage a variety of interests. On December 3, English Professor Tom Fink, will  present his findings on student and faculty attitudes towards research writing, quotation, and plagiarism. Then, he will lead a discussion involving exploration of the line between proper quotation/attribution and plagiarism, including the problem and opportunity of patchwriting. The conversation will consider how faculty can develop instructional strategies to promote effective research writing.
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CUNY's 12th Annual IT Conference
Thursday and Friday, December 5 and 6, 2013 @ John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: Disruptions and Developments, the City University of New York's 12th Annual IT Conference will look back over - and beyond - a year of touted disruptions, of promised tsunamis and revolutions in the way IT is deployed in academe. How much has changed? How much that was prophesied may still come to pass? It would be good to get together and talk about this, and the CUNY IT Conference seems to be the ideal occasion. Proposals for presentations are invited from the CUNY community, particularly those addressing developments that are demonstrably or potentially game-changing -- or, on the other hand, are evidence that the game is resistant to being changed....
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