Interactive Writing II Session #12: December 18th, 2009
Cover of Little Plum Report #1: comparing Little Plum with a Japanese children’s story (500 words). Please introduce your report to the rest of the class, in English and Japanese. If you did not give me your report today, please email it to me as soon as possible. Afterwards we listened to a well-known winter [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #10: December 4th, 2009
Assigned 1 paragraph of chapter 4 per student to translate into Japanese. Conferenced with each student to confirm outstanding assignments. When to do the make-up classes? I cancelled Nov. 6th class due to entrance exams at my home university. I will also cancel January 15th class in order to attend a conference. Official make-up days [...]
Research in English II Session #9: November 27th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Comments about the report #1: Don’t use “I” or “me” or “my” in an academic paper (write your personal opinions in a last paragraph) Don’t put anything in the footer except the page number Use “according to…” Distinguish between fact and opinion (especially your opinion and other writers’ opinions). Listening – textbook [...]
Research in English II Session #8: November 13th, 2009
We heard summaries of students’ Australia reports, in English and in Japanese. Some comments about the reports: Next time - write (in your first paragraph) why you chose the topic, make some connection with Japan (e.g.: Japan has tried to introduce a Flying Doctor service like Australia’s, but the cost is too high). please write [...]
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