Paraphrasing and Citation Tasks

Composing a Short Paragraph individually, write a paragraph of

150-250 words that comprises both direct and indirect citations.
You can also include your own ideas. Please remember that this
paragraph is part of your paper’s introduction. You are advised to
read relevant 3-4 articles. Do create a List of References. Upon
the completion of these paraphrasing and citation tasks, you will
need to make your ideas/sentences organized or connected each
other. You can highlight each of the textual moves as we did in
our annotated reading.
Topic:
Online learning in Higher education as an effective way for
teachers and students to conduct the teaching and learning
process during COVID-19 pandemic.
Contoh Pengerjaan Tugasnya

Today most modern people consider social media as an effective tool for
teaching and learning in virtual/online classes

Social media mediate teachers and students to be able to interact,

collaborate and negotiate with each other. It is because this tool is
mostly equipped various useful features such as massaging, chatting,
mini programs, searching and many more, so when teachers conduct
online teaching, they just adopt them to instruct and communicate
either written or spoken with their students to learn. Previous studies
argued/maintain/find/emphasize that the means of mobile social
media can encourage students to release, share and search learning
resources which are be to develop their online teaching and learning
experience (Manca & Ranieri, 2016; Ozdemir, 2017; Price et al., 2018).
It is line with/ similarly, Sijia & Daniel’s (2020) study pointed out that
this technology enables teachers to design learning activities and
motivate their students to engage with online classroom. For example,
James (2021) states that ‘before teaching starts, teachers design and
share learning materials to students through using files links feature to
each student instantly through the Facebook or Whatsapp platform and
then text their students to learn and do assignments earlier’ (p.17) .
Thus, this technology definitely helps teachers and students
optimize/maximize them in online teaching and learning activities
during virtual classes occur.

List of References
1. James, F., (2021). “Yes for sharing, no for teaching!”: Social Media in academic
practices. The Internet and Higher Education, 29, 63-74.

2. Manca, S., & Ranieri, M. (2016). Is Facebook still a suitable technology‐enhanced

learning environment? An updated critical review of the literature from 2012 to
2015. Journal of computer assisted learning, 32(6), 503-528.
3. Sijia, M., & Daniel, G. (2020). Facebook and the others. Potentials and obstacles of
social media for teaching in higher education. Computers & Education, 95, 216-230.