Aoyama Gakuin - IE3 Writing - Elvin

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