October 28th lesson

Dear students,
Today you will meet in the multi-media room on the first floor of the main libary to learn about the library facilities at Aoyama and how to do research. Please be punctual and make yourself known to a member of staff.
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin

October 21st lesson

Dear students,
Today you will write an essay about your favorite things. In particular, you should include a book, magazine, newspaper, website, journal, movie, song and quotation. The purpose of this essay is to practice writing in-text citations and to compile a bibliography (works cited).
This assignment is worth 10 points (see part c of course outline).
If you would like to generate citations automatically, you may find the site below useful.
http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-book
If there is time, you may also start part b of the course (see course outline).
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin

October 14th lesson

Dear students,
Today you will write an outline for an essay in groups. Please download and print the worksheet below.
http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/aw/essayoutline.pdf
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin

October 7th class

Dear students,
Today you will study one of the sample essays in the appendix of the textbook, and then practice mapping an academic topic in groups.
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin

October 7th lesson

Dear students,
The course outline has been changed. Please download a copy of the new one below.
http://www.eflclub.com/aogaku/aw/academicwritingsyllabus2014Elvin
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin

Welcome to Chris Elvin's Aoyama Gakuin Academic Writing Class

Dear students,
Welcome to Academic Writing. I will be posting to this blog regularly throughout the semester, so please either subscribe to it, or read it before coming to class.
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin