Aoyama Gakuin - IE3 Writing - Elvin

Dear students, Today, you may work on your persuasion essays. I would also like to check your portfolios, so please make sure to bring your essays and homework assignments, and all classwork to class. Ideally, you should keep your work in a clear plastic file, which you will hand to me again at the end of the semester. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today we will take a look at the persuasion essays in the course book (pg 142-144), and brainstorm ideas for a group persuasion essay. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

For those of you who are currently trying to generate MLA references for your essays, here is a good website which creates references automatically for you; http://www.bibme.org

Dear students, Today you will continue working on your classification I essay. Your a) homework assignment is demonstrate your understanding of paraphrase, summary, and direct and indirect quotations on one A4 sheet of paper (10 points). Your b) homework is to demonstrate your understanding of MLA references, which means both in body citations, which are part of the article / essay, and bibliographical references which come at the end. This also should be on an A4 sheet of paper (10 points). Two other points; Your four homework essay lengths have been changed to between 400 and 500 words. I forgot to take the register last lesson, so please tell me if you were absent last week. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will read two students' classification essays (pg 139-141). For the rest of the lesson you will continue writing, proof reading, editing and rewriting your essays. Please show me your work any time during the lesson. Your target should be to write a well researched and referenced essay which includes a personal opinion. Ideally it should also be error free and well written. Good luck!

Dear students, Sorry to confuse you, but the course outline has been changed as follows: a) Write classification essays. b) Write persuasion essays. c) Use direct and indirect quotations. d) Paraphrase and summarize. e) Use MLA style to cite sources and compile bibliographies. Your topics are i) relationships, ii) cross-cultural values, iii) the environment, and iv) the media. Course Assessment and Grading Criteria   a)      10%   Direct and indirect quotations, paraphrase and summarize exercise b)      10%   MLA cite sources and compile bibliography exercise c)      12%   Classification essay I d)      12%   Classification essay I e)      12%   Persuasion essay I f)       12%   Persuasion essay II g)      ...

Dear students, Today you will work on your first homework assignment by writing it or editing and rewriting it after a peer review. Remember to quote, paraphrase, or summarize, cite these sources, and make sure that your references conform to MLA style. If you believe that your essay is error free, or you can't find anything wrong with it any more, please show it to me and I will provide feedback. A great essay will contain good references from reliable sources, have an intelligent opinion, and will be new and interesting to me. Kind regards, Chris Elvin PS. The essay that you wrote last week might not be the right topic to be one of your four 10-point homework assignments. Nevertheless, please keep it in your portfolio to hand in at the end of the semester.