Aoyama Gakuin - IE3 Writing - Elvin

Dear students, Today you will hand in two typed assignments of between 400 and 500 words in APA format. One will be classification, and the other will be persuasion. Before you hand in your two final papers, please make sure to upload your files to the IE writing database. You will not get credit for assignments UNLESS YOU SUBMIT THE UPLOAD “RECEIPT” with your paper. The receipt should be attached to the front page of the essay or thesis. You should login as follows: http://www.ap.agu4u.org/users/login Username : student Password : tGpUU5Cv After you have handed in your two assignments together with the "upload successful" receipts, you will have your final test. Please see the previous post for details. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will have a practice test, which will be very similar to your mid-term exam except that your essay will be about persuasion, and that you will need to cite three experts as APA formatted in-text citations, together with their corresponding "Works Cited" references. Your composition should try to persuade a politician or person in power to change a policy or a belief. You will have twenty minutes to get references, and sixty minutes to write your article. You should write at least 250 words. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, The general APA guidelines are as follows: Your essay should be typed, double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5" x 11") with 1" margins on all sides. You should use a clear font that is highly readable. APA recommends using 12 pt. Times New Roman font. You may download an already formatted word document here: APA formatted Microsoft Word document Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today and next week's lesson have been reserved for portfolio assignment writing. You should write, edit, peer edit and have your teacher check your work as much as possible. For homework, you should type your assignments and show your teacher these drafts. This will save you time in the long run. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will start to write your second major assignment, persuasion. Your body paragraphs should include an opposing viewpoint paragraph, so probably this will mean a six-paragraph essay. As usual, you will need at least three references. This time, each reference should be that of an expert. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your group persuasion essays to each other. After that, please find three expert opinions to support your thesis. Cite these sources in APA and include them in your "Works Cited". The essay that you will show to your teacher should be a comletely finished essay, with a title, introduction, body paragraphs, a conclusion, and APA citations. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will correct your formatting mistakes in the mid-term test. After that, you will start to learn about persuasive essay writing. Please download the prints and bring them to class. http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/ie3/modelpersuasion.pdf http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/ie3/persuasionessay.pdf http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/ie3/persuasiontopics.pdf Some of you may also need to review APA formatting, so please download the prints below, too. APA article example APA review Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today is your mid-term test, which is worth 20 points. Ten points will be awarded for map/outline, title, paragraph shape, thesis statment, three in-text citations in APA format, and three matching references in your "Works Cited". The other ten points will be for your writing. Remember, it is a classification essay, so you should be classifying clearly. You will have 20 minutes to look for references online, and 60 minutes to write your essay. You only need to write three intext citations and three matching references for this test, but a good essay may have more than three. Therefore, if you cite more than three sources, just put (4), (5), (6), etc. as in-text citation markers in your essay to suggest that you would need to cite these properly if you had the time. Your "Works Cited" only needs to have the three references which match your first three in-text citations. Is that clear? Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will practice for the mid-term test, which will be held the following week. You should write a five paragraph classification essay about an author's works. It should be at least 300 words, and have three in-text citations with matching references in your "Works Cited". You will have up to twenty minutes to search online for references. After that, you should stop using your cell phone. (Once you start writing, you should stop using any electronic device, nor may you use a dictionary). Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your group classification of an author's works essay in class. Your essay should contain three APA formatted in-text citation markers together with three matching APA references in your "Works Cited." You should write about 150 words per person. Your teacher will check your essay after you have read it in class. After you have finished, you should start your 20-point classification assignment essay. First, choose something to classify. Then draw a map or make an outline. Have your teacher check your map. Then start writing. Your essay should be between 400 and 500 words and contain at least three references. Kind regards, Chris Elvin P.S. You may use an app, such as "easybib" to help you write APA formatted references. P.P.S. You may show me your draft as often as you wish up until the deadline, so please let me check it.

Dear students, Your homework was to finish the APA matching print and to write three APA "Works Cited" references for the classification essay that you analysed last week in class. Today you will study APA formatted references (Works Cited), and after that you will work in groups of two or three to classify an author's works. This group assignment should have three APA formatted in-text citation markers, and three matching APA formatted references in your "Works Cited". Kind regads, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Your homework was to write one of the body paragraphs of a classification essay from the classification chart that you drew in class. You should write about 100 words. In addition, your essay as a group should include three citations:  a dictionary definition, a quote, and an expert opinion, all of which should be APA formatted in-text citations. In class, you will read a classification essay, analyze it, and learn how to write a "Works Cited" to match your in-text citations. Finally, you will review in-text citations, so please download the print and bring it to class. http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/aw/APAintextcitationsmatching.pdf Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, This week you will take a look at classification essays in the textbook (pages 97 and 98). After that you will study classification English expresssions as a class. Then you will create a classification diagram in small groups, and write a classification essay together with your group. The topic of your essay can be anything you wish. Your group essay should include three citations: a definition using the Aoyama Library online Oxford English dictionary; a famous quotation, and an opinion of an expert. These in-text citations should all be in APA format. Kind regards, Chris Elvin You may download the textbook from here: http://www.aogaku-daku.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-IE-Core-Writing.pdf

Dear students, Today you will review direct and indirect quotations, paraphrasing and summarizing by writing examples of each. If you are asked to find a quotation of a book,  Project Gutenberg  has many public domain novels. Kind regards, Chris Elvin