Wednesday, December 4, 2013

4.8 IRP Formatting

Today’s lesson will be about:

Attendance

Objectives
You will be able to:
  • Describe formatting rules required for academic papers – font, spacing, alignment, margins, and indentation.
  • Execute the formatting in Microsoft Word in multiple ways.
  • Modify a sample research paper in MS Word in the following way:

               Insert page numbers
               Develop a shortened title and create a running head
               Format a title page with a title, author, and institutional affiliation


Warm up Discussion


Formatting Guide


What’s missing?


Homework
1. Topics for the elective day
Go to the link below and sign up some topics that you want to talk about on elective day.


2. Individual Conference
We will have individual conferences from Dec, 3 (Tue) to Dec, 5 (Thur) of this week. Discussion will be about your IRP. Bring all works (electronically) that you have done for IRP.
Please come 5 mins earlier before your sign-up time. Check the time on GoogleDoc.


3. Rubric for IRP Grading


4. Final IRP Submit
Submit the final version of IRP on SafeAssign.
Your IRP should fully follow the APA style that we discussed in class today. It should have a cover page, a title, page numbers, Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double spaced, 1 inch margin for all side. See and check your document thoroughly before you submit. Also, don’t forget to include all sources that you use for IRP.

*Provide information below on the last page after references. It should be separated page from references.
Your Full Name:
UIN:
Course title/section: ESL 115 K
Instructor Name: Jamie Hyeonji Choi
Semester/Year: Fall 2013
*Name the file “IRP_Your First Name”
*Upload the file on SafeAssign. Click here to submit.
*Due date and time: Dec, 6 before the class starts, 3:00pm sharp.


5. Extra Work: Reflective Essay3
Please email me once you have uploaded Reflective Essay3. If you do not email me, I won’t grade your work.
If you want to earn extra credit for this course, you might write the third reflective essay. I expect you to write a well-organized and decent work of reflection on your experience of academic writing. It should be about 400 words, Time New Roman, 12 pt fonts, double spaced and 1 inch margin for all sides. Here are some specific questions that you might answer.

What might be the most important in writing an academic paper? Why?
What did you learn in this course? What did you like the most? Why? 
What difficulties that you had faced in this course? You might write your specific experiences if you want. How do you resolve the problems? Do you think that going through those difficulties/problems helps improve your writing ability? Why or why not?
How do you feel about finishing up this course? Do you feel more comfortable and confident about academic writings or do you still worry about them? Why?



6. Here is the schedule for lessons and homework assignments. Check the assignments and due date and time. 
Lessons
Due date and time
Assignments
Paraphrasing
Nov, 15 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution1 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Quoting
Nov, 18 (Mon) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution2 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Introduction
Nov, 20 (Wed) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution1 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Conclusion
Nov, 20 (Wed) 11:55 pm
3 Writer’s Help exercise about Quoting
Nov, 22 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Example Introduction
Peer perception on solution 1, 2 and 3
Dec, 2 (Mon) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution3 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
IRP Formatting
Dec, 4 (Wed)
Introduction and conclusion
Elective day
Dec, 6 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Submit final IRP
No class
Dec, 9 (Mon)

No class
Dec, 11 (Wed) 3:00 pm
 Reflective Essay #3


Monday, December 2, 2013

4.7 Peer Perception Practice

Today’s lesson will be about:


Attendance


Objectives
You will be able to:

  • Use skills taught in training day to effectively review peers’ IRP Solutions.
  • Write a paragraph about reflecting the received feedback on their further revision.


Warm up


Peer Perception Practice
Please, do not use your personal laptop. 
I recommend you to use desktops in the classroom.

A
B
C
D
E
Paul
Haotian
Xintian
Rui
Jane
Chanung
Yuqing
Fran
Muazr
Jack
Yiqi
Xiaoqi
Yujia
Pei Han
Dipanshu


Wrap up



Homework
Before you leave the classroom, upload your Peer Perception Practice file on your Dropbox.
*Name the file as “PPP_IRP_Your First Name”
*Submit the file on Dropbox>>>Unit4. Individual Research Paper.  


Introduction and Conclusion
For your IRP, write Introduction and conclusion for IRP.  Before you write, review what we have learned in Introduction and Conclusion lesson, especially two triangles.

*Name the file “Introduction and Conclusion_Your First Name”
*Upload the file on Dropbox>>>Unit4. Individual Research Paper.
*Due date and time: Dec, 4 (Wed) before the class starts, 3:00 pm sharp.


Individual Conference
We will have individual conferences from tomorrow (Tue) to Thursday of this week. Discussion will be about your IRP. Bring all works (electronically) that you have done for IRP.
Please come 5 mins earlier before your sign-up time. Check GoogleDoc here.


Extra Work: Reflective Essay3
Please email me once you have uploaded Reflective Essay3. If you do not email me, I won’t grade your work.
If you want to earn extra credit for this course, you might write the third reflective essay. I expect you to write a well-organized and decent work of reflection on your experience of academic writing. It should be about 400 words, Time New Roman, 12 pt fonts, double spaced and 1 inch margin for all sides. Here are some specific questions that you might answer.

What might be the most important in writing an academic paper? Why?
What did you learn in this course? What did you like the most? Why? 
What difficulties that you had faced in this course? You might write your specific experiences if you want. How do you resolve the problems? Do you think that going through those difficulties/problems helps improve your writing ability? Why or why not?
How do you feel about finishing up this course? Do you feel more comfortable and confident about academic writings or do you still worry about them? Why?



Here is the schedule for lessons and homework assignments. Check the assignments and due date and time. 
Lessons
Due date and time
Assignments
Paraphrasing
Nov, 15 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution1 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Quoting
Nov, 18 (Mon) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution2 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Introduction
Nov, 20 (Wed) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution1 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Conclusion
Nov, 20 (Wed) 11:55 pm
3 Writer’s Help exercise about Quoting
Nov, 22 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Example Introduction
Peer perception on solution 1, 2 and 3
Dec, 2 (Mon) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution3 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Peer perception on introduction and conclusion
Dec, 4 (Wed) 3:00 pm
Introduction and conclusion.
Elective day
Dec, 6 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Submit final IRP
No class
Dec, 9 (Mon)

No class
Dec, 11 (Wed) 3:00 pm
Submit COMPLETE IRP


Thursday, November 21, 2013

4.6 Conclusion

Today’s lesson will be about:


Attendance


Objectives
You will be able to:
  • Identify the components of research paper conclusions.
  • Define the functions of the components in groups.
  • Create a conclusion based on the given outline including the components above.




àHook/Attention Getter


àBackground Information


àThesis Statement




Warm-up Discussion


What do we have in a conclusion?
Sample Conclusions from 2 Essays                       
(Use Red, Green, Yellow colors.)


Functions of three components


à ???


à ???


à ???




Writing a Conclusion


Wrap-up Discussion
Handout

Homework
1. Solution3
For your IRP, complete the chart for Solution3 and write rough (80% of completion) 3 paragraphs.
Click here to download the chart. Read the direction carefully.

*Name the file “Solution3_Your First Name”
*Upload the file on Dropbox>>>Unit4. Individual Research Paper.
*Due date and time: Dec, 2 (Mon) before the class starts, 3:00 pm sharp.


2. Individual Conference
We will have individual conferences. Go to GoogleDoc and sing up for your individual conference.


3. Extra Work: Reflective Essay3
If you want to earn extra credit for this course, you might write the third reflective essay. I expect you to write a well-organized and decent work of reflection on your experience of academic writing. It should be about 400 words, Time New Roman, 12 pt fonts, double spaced and 1 inch margin for all sides. Here are some specific questions that you might answer.

  • What might be the most important in writing an academic paper? Why?
  • What did you learn in this course? What did you like the most? Why?  
  • What difficulties that you had faced in this course? You might write your specific experiences if you want. How do you resolve the problems? Do you think that going through those difficulties/problems helps improve your writing ability? Why or why not?
  • How do you feel about finishing up this course? Do you feel more comfortable and confident about academic writings or do you still worry about them? Why?


4. Here is the schedule for lessons and homework assignments. Check the assignments and due date and time.
Lessons
Due date and time
Assignments
Paraphrasing
Nov, 15 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution1 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Quoting
Nov, 18 (Mon) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution2 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Introduction
Nov, 20 (Wed) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution1 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Conclusion
Nov, 20 (Wed) 11:55 pm
3 Writer’s Help exercise about Quoting
Nov, 22 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Example Introduction
Peer perception on solution 1, 2 and 3
Dec, 2 (Mon) 3:00 pm
Complete the chart for Solution3 with rough (80%) 3 paragraphs.
Peer perception on introduction and conclusion
Dec, 4 (Wed)
Introduction and conclusion.
Elective day
Dec, 6 (Fri) 3:00 pm
Submit final IRP
No class
Dec, 9 (Mon)
Individual conference sign up
No class
Dec, 11 (Wed) 3:00 pm
Submit COMPLETE IRP