Aoyama Gakuin - IE3 Writing - Elvin

Dear students, For homework, draw a classification chart of about ten random letters. Then write a paragraph essay about your classification. In class, read your essay to your partner while she listens and draws. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Please do not copy paste from the internet or anywhere else. You should paraphrase, and then cite your source with an in-text citation and full reference in APA format. Most strings of five words or more which are identical to the original are considered to be plagiarism. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will review APA formatted in-text citations: APA in-text citation matching exercise and APA formatted references: APA references matching After that, you will start classification. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will summarize a newspaper article, so please bring a story to class. You may use your cell phone, too. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Your homework was to upload your essay about spring vacation using the online form . Today you will summarize a book so please bring one to class. Please write over 250 words. At the end of the summary, you should include an APA formatted in-text citation within the final sentence of the final summary paragraph. This should be the author's family name, and year of publication of the book you read in parenthesis. At the end of your opinion, you should include a full APA formatted reference. In order, you should write the author's family name, comma, initials, followed by the year of publication in parenthesis, period, followed by the title of the book (sentence case), period, publishing city and country, colon, then publishing company, period. After you have finished writing your summary and opinion, please paste it into the text of the online homework form (see above) and submit. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Welcome to the course. Please check this blog every week for news and updates, and to submit homework assignments. Kind regards, Chris Elvin COURSE OUTLINE IEIII – Integrated English – Writing Spring 2018 Instructor: Chris Elvin Email:  chriselvin@gmail.com Blog:  www.ie3elvin.blogspot.jp Course Description Welcome to Integrated English III. This class is designed to accomplish the following: i) Write classification essays. ii) Write persuasion essays. iii) Use direct and indirect quotations. iv) Paraphrase and summarize. v) Use APA style to cite sources and compile bibliographies. Your topics are: i)   relationships ii)   cross-cultural values iii)   the environment iv)   media Course Assessment and Grading Criteria a) 40%  Homework assignments b) 20%  Classification essay c) 20%  Persuasion essay d) 10%  Mid-term assessment e) 10%  Final in-class essay Homework assignments : There will be regular hom