Aoyama Gakuin - IE3 Writing - Elvin

Dear students, Today you will hand in your two final papers to me in person. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today is your persuasion final test. You should write a persuasive letter to someone. This person will be revealed on the test day. The test will last 70 minutes. In order for the test to be fair, please do not recycle previous essays. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will have the chance to edit either or both of your final papers. I can check them if you wish. For details of these assignments, please see the course outline . Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your group letter to a businessperson to another group. After that, please prepare a business letter to an important person. This is a solo activity. If possible, let me check it in class today. If you wish, you can use this homework assignment as a template for your final essay (which should be between 400 and 500 words). The deadline for your final papers is approaching (week 15). Let me check your classification essay if  you wish. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your letter to a politician in your group. Then you will plan to write to a business person. If there is time, let me check your final classification paper. Soon you will also have to write a persuasive letter to an important person so please think about that. Also, you should cite your sources in APA whenever necessary, including for persuasion. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your homework to a friend in pairs or groups and then write a letter to a politician in pairs or groups. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will write a persuasive letter to a friend in pairs or groups of three. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will start persuasive writing. What are the pros and cons of school uniform? Imagine you are a parent of a kindergarten or elementary school child. You like the school but you are not happy with the school uniform policy. Your task is to write a persuasion letter to the principal asking her to consider making a change. As usual, you should write a between 150 and 250 words. Homework Assignment Form for Persuasion Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today is your mid-term test. You should classify the works of one of the following people: a) William Shakespeare b) Charles Dickens c) Virginia Woolf d) Charlotte Bronte e) Stanley Kubrick f) Steven Spielberg g) Johnny Depp h) Emma Stone You should do your research before coming to class. You may bring your concept map and APA formatted notes to class, but dictionaries or cell phones will not be allowed. Remember to cite your sources in APA format. You will have seventy minutes to write your essay. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your pair / group homework to another group. After that you will start your assignment paper on classifying an author, director, or actor’s works. This is a solo exercise. You should write a minimum of 400 words. Please refer to the course outline for details. Let your teacher check your concept map, APA formatting and writing. The deadline for this paper is July, but you should start today. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your group essays about an author’s works that you finished for homework. Then you will check each other’s APA formatting, and with the teacher if you are not sure. After that you will work in pairs or groups of three to classify an actor or director’s works. The APA format for in-text citations and references for movies is different to that of books, so please refer to the previous prints when citing  your sources. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Please don't sign in before you get to class. Sign in once you are in class. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read your group classification homework assignment essays in class. After that you will classify an author’s works in groups of three. For homework you should write one of the body paragraphs of the group essay. Include in-text citations and references for each work you cite. You do not need in-text citations or references for books you only mention. Try to cite two or three books each. You should write in APA format. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will learn about classification. Your homework for today is to write ten to twelve sentences to classify something real or imaginary as part of a half-class team. Eventually, you will have one long essay which can be read in order. First, as a team, draw your classification chart. Then decide who will write what, and the order of the writers. Homework submission form Kind regards, Chris Elvin PS. Here are the answers to last week’s APA reference matching exercise.

Dear students, Today you will learn about in-text citations and references in APA format. For homework, please provide three in-text citations with their matching references in APA format that you wrote yourself. Homework Link Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will sign in (as you will do every class). class attendance Then, I would like to ask you to participate in a pre-course survey that I ask of all my students. pre-course survey After that, you will write an essay about a book that you have read. Cite your source within the text in APA format, and provide a full APA style reference after the text. You may do this homework assignment alone, in pairs, or as a group so long as your word count is between 200 and 300 words. When you have finished, you should upload your writing to the class database (see "Welcome to IE3" blog post). Kind regards, Chris Elvin PS. For those of you who did your homework promptly and wrote more than 50 words, well done!

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) Paraphrase and summarize. iv) Use APA style to cite sources and compile bibliographies. 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 homework assignments, some of which may be started during class. The deadline for these essays is Sunday evening. Homework Assignment Submission Form  (classification) Homework assignment form for persuasion Classification and Persuasion Essays : You will be required to write two homework assignments during the semester.  Each essay will be worth twenty percentage points, a