Aoyama Gakuin - IE3 Writing - Elvin

Dear students, Today you will review MLA style. Please download the two prints below and bring them to class. http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/ie3/In-text_citations.pdf http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/ie3/MLA.pdf We will also start writing persuasive essays, so please download the guidelines for this type of writing. http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/ie3/persuasionessay.pdf Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today is your mid-term test which is worth 20 points. You will be asked to classify something chosen by the teacher on the day. You should write more than 250 words. Ten points will be awarded for the following: 1) map, 2) title, 3) paragraph shape, 4) thesis statement, and three works cited (3) with their corresponding in-text citations (3). The other ten points will be awarded for your writing ability; task completion, cohesion and coherence, grammar range and accuracy, and vocabulary (10). Good luck! Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear  students, Today you will start classification. Kind regards, Chris Elvin Note about in-text citation: In MLA style, writers place references to sources in the paper to briefly identify them and enable readers to find them in the Works Cited list. These parenthetical references should be kept as brief and as clear as possible. Give only the information needed to identify a source. Usually the author's last name and a page reference. Place the parenthetical reference as close as possible to its source. Insert the parenthetical reference where a pause would naturally occur, preferably at the end of a sentence. Information in the parenthesis should complement, not repeat, information given in the text. If you include an author's name in a sentence, you do not need to repeat it in your parenthetical statement. The parenthetical reference should be before the punctuation mark that concludes the sentence, clause, or phrase that contains the cited material. Electron...

Dear students, Today you will practice summarising, paraphrasing and quoting using MLA style for in-text citations and "Works Cited". Please bring something to class that you would like to use for your summaries / paraphrases / quotes. You may bring several sources if you wish. If you would like to learn more about MLA, here is a handout: http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/ie3/MLA.pdf If you would like to generate MLA formatted "Works Cited" automatically, please check out "bib me"  ( http://www.bibme.org ) or  "Son of Citation" ( http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-book ). Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today, please show me your completed homework (summary, opinion, in-text citation, works cited). In-text Citations MLA style requires brief citation information to be included in the text of your paper, and most often in parentheses at the end of your summary, paraphrase or quotation. This will signal to the reader that the writing is not  your own, and that the original source can be found in your "Works Cited" at the end of your paper. Works Cited At the end of your paper, you must provide an alphabetical list of all the works that you have cited in your paper. This requirement includes summaries, paraphrases and quotations. If you are citing a book, for example, the MLA format will look like this: Author's last name, first name. Title of book. City of publication: publisher, date. Please do not be too overwhelmed at the moment. By the end of the semester you should all be quite capable. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Thank you for coming to class yesterday. Please subscribe to this blog, or bookmark it, or visit it before coming to class. For our lesson on April 15th 2014, you will read your completed group essays to two other groups. After that, we will start to practice summarising, paraphrasing, and quoting other sources. Please bring a book to class for these exercises. (For example, a Harry Potter story, Great Expectations, Hiroshima, A Brief History of Time, etc.) Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today is your last lesson. You will provide feedback to the university about the course, and then hand in your portfolio. Your portfolio should include your final paper (50 points) and two homework assignments (10 points each). For one assignment you should demonstrate your understanding of how to use another writer's words corrctly, to strengthen your argument and to avoid plagiarism (summary, paraphrase, direct quotation, indirect quotation). The examples you provide should have the correct MLA format for intext citations. For the second homework you should demonstrate how to construct a bibliography in MLA format. Ideally, you should show that you are comfortable compiling bibliographies from a variety of media sources. You may use examples directly from your essay if you wish. Please don't worry too much about these homework assignments. If you can clearly understand the concepts I will be happy and you will earn full marks. Kind regards...