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IE3 Core Spring 2013:  Lesson 3

4/25/2013

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Hi everyone,

As usual, we had another busy class.  However, you get a short break because of the Golden Week vacation next week.  

Group Discussions:
Once again, good work with your discussions. I was also impressed that some of the leaders used gestures effectively (we'll have a lesson on this in May).  

However, remember these points to improve your discussions next week:
  1. When you pre-teach your vocabulary, make sure you have a pronunciation practice with your group.  If you can’t say a word, you’ll never be able to remember it. 
  2. Remember to check your group's understanding at least 3 times during the summary/opinion section.  You can use these expressions:
  • Are you following me?
  • Is this clear?
  • Any questions so far?

Bibliography
We learned how to make a bibliography for a research paper.  A bibliography is an alphabetical list of all the sources you use for your research paper.  When you organize your source information in your bibliography, you need to arrange it using the MLA style (MLA=Modern Language Association).

MLA Referencing:
MLA referencing is one of the ways you can document your sources in your research paper.  This style is used in the humanities, especially for writing about language and literature.  Below, you can find the handout from class with the most common MLA entries.

MLA Referencing Guide

Introduction Structure:
We also learned about the different parts of an introduction:  
a.    hook
b.    general statements
c.    thesis statement

You can choose from five different hooks: 
a.  quotes
b.  questions
c.  statistics
d.  interesting facts

Late Submissions:

Please be aware that your writing must be submitted on time if you would like to receive my comments.  If you submit your writing after a deadline, it will not be checked. 

Enjoy the Golden Week vacation!

Homework:
  1. Journal Topic #3:  work-volunteer experience
  2. Blog Comment #3
  3. Discussion preparation (see schedule)
  4. Introduction: due April 30 by 12noon by email
  5. Bibliography:  due May by 12noon by email

If you missed our lesson on Wednesday, make sure you review the Introduction and Bibliography Guidelines before you submit your tasks.

Don't forget our lesson is cancelled on May 1.  Remember to come back on May 8.  

Blog Question #3:
  1. What difficulties did you have writing your introduction?
  2. Why do you think you are writing your essay step-by-step?

*Write 8-10 sentences.
*Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
*Submit by Wednesday, May 7 by 6:00pm.

Introduction Guidelines
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Bibliography Guidelines
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14 Comments
IE3T-Hideyo
4/30/2013 01:06:48 pm

Through writing introduction,it was difficult for me to choose information.When I tried to write a persuasion essay,I felt that I have to know about my topic very well.I needed to reserch it but there were too much information on internet.Some of them were personal site so I could'nt judge whether the information is reliable or not.I have to be carefull to choose information based on a fact.It is important in writing a persuasive sentence.In my opinion,we can construct our essay progressively by making it step by step.We can check it at each place and easy to rewrite it.By doing so,we can write it constitutively and express my opinion more precisely.

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IE3T-Anna
4/30/2013 05:28:37 pm

The hardest part about writing the introduction to my essay was to read the information. My topic was euthanasia, so I had to read many things about people's death. Facts told by doctors and people working in the medical field was not as hard for me, but having to read what the patients and the patient's family had to go through was very difficult for me.
I think the reason we are writing this essay step by step because by doing so, we are able to realize any mistakes and correct that we may have made in the paragraph before. Another reason is, we may think that we know how to write an essay, but we might not really know all the rules to writing it. By taking it step by step, we have chances to really learn the correct way to writing an essay.

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IE3T-Hitomi
5/3/2013 06:42:03 pm

1. It was difficult for me to get my ideas and information in shape when I wrote my introduction. Introduction is the first part of essay of course, so I had to consider what information could catch people's interest and give reasons in short sentences.
2. We do not know how to write an essay and make a lot of mistakes. I think those are why we are writing it step by step. By doing so, we can correct a mistake before we proceed the next part of essay with the mistake and there are many chances to think about the topic deeply.

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IE3T-SHIORI
5/5/2013 03:28:51 am

The most difficult point was correct some information of my essay. There are many sites on Internet so we have to choose the best topic's information. When I try to search my topic's information, I always can't correct it well. It's difficult for me because I can't write my introduction deeply if you don't choose your topic's information prudently. This is my difficulties of my writing my introduction. And I think we can recognize our mistakes by write step-by-step. To write correctly is a best way of find our mistakes too. On the other hand, we can learn the way of writing too. Through writing an introduction step-by-step, we can find the point that we have to remake about our introduction.

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IE3T-Madoka
5/5/2013 03:40:38 pm

My topic is nuclear power, bacause I live in Ibaraki, and this topic is near myself. When I wrote introduction of my essay, it was difficult to read articles and write informations plainly. In articles, I saw many vocabularies which I haven't ever seen, so reading comprehension was hard. I think it is very important how to provide that information at the biginning.
I think writing our essay step-by-step is very efficient way because we can write it while correcting a composition. By doing so, it is easy to understand and keep in mind our mistakes. Besides that, we can also master how to write an essay immediately. It will be a very good lesson.

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IE3T-Miki
5/5/2013 10:38:36 pm

I had some difficulties to write my introduction. Collecting information was difficult for me. I gathered many informations on the Internet. There are many wrong informations on the Internet, so I had to care. Moreover, summarizing something to say was difficult. I had many opinions about my topic. While collecting various informations, my opinion became not clear anymore in whether it is opposite or agree. While writing, something to say becomes confused. In my opinion, to make such confusion ease and correct mistakes gradually, we write our essay step-by-step.

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IE3T-Eriko
5/6/2013 12:45:18 am

I had some difficulties when I wrote my introduction. First, it was hard for me to collect exact information. There was much information on the Internets. The theme of my essay is “smoking”, and some information written by people who hate cigarettes were sometimes emotive and uncertain. Second was writing hook statement. Smoking problem is very common, so it is difficult to find out what a fact unknown was.
Writing an essay in foreign language is not easy. Therefore I will make many mistakes in it. If I try to write my whole essay at once, I will make a lot of mistakes and may switch the focus of argument. By being checked frequently, I can fix the mistakes and got advices which make my essay better. I think this is why we are doing step-by-step.

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IT3T-Chika
5/6/2013 01:51:19 pm

It was difficult writing objectively. My essay topic is Gay Marriage and I'm for it. At the introduction, however, I had to explain as neutral about both sides. I couldn't possibly do so but I tried to explain about against position as equal as for position. By the way, I think that there are two reasons why I write my essay step by step. At first, it is difficult to write all paragraph at once. The second reason is that I can think about my topic more deeply. It means writing step-by-step takes more time and I can get advise each time. It make me logically and evenly to think about the issue. In conclusion, it is the best way to write the controversy essay.

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IE3T-Asami
5/6/2013 02:02:18 pm

I thought it was difficult to choose some suitable information for my topic. I used the internet and went to the library, and it made long time to select better information. I also feel hard to think how it puts in my introduction. As I have to write my essay according to the fixed pattern, chosen information have to be applied in the form correctly. For example, Hook Statement should be a sentence that catches reader's attention rather than the common facts that everyone knows.
There is the form we have to follow to write an essay, so it is necessary to maintain it through writing step-by-step. I can notice any mistakes immediately and avoid changing to the wrong subject from the basis of my topic. To write step-by-step will make more polished essay with a firm foundation.

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IE3T-Konomi
5/6/2013 03:05:31 pm

My essay is about abortion but of course I’ve never pregnant so it was really hard to think about how a woman feels when she have to abortion. On the internet, a lot of opinion was there. My opinion for abortion is opposite, but when I read an opinion of a person who passed away because of to be denied an abortion, my thinking was a little bit lost. The way to write an essay on step by step is really important for me because my opinion is getting sure by that step. Although I didn’t know the correct way to write an essay in English so it’s good learning.

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IE3T-Nao
5/6/2013 04:55:23 pm

It was difficult for me to think the reason why I am against marijuhana. I was at a loss when I write my introduction as I did't know marijuhana very much though my topic is marijuhana. Therefore I search about marijuhana on the internet. I refered to a lot of opinion and facts about marijuhana, so I could write satisfying introduction.
I think writing my essay step by step has good points. I could write my introduction effectively by outline. Outline help me make sure my idea or write persuasive introduction. I want to keep learning how to write good essay and information about my topic.

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IE3T-Yuri. W
5/6/2013 06:14:44 pm

Finding the information was the most difficult point for me. Also, writing the hook statement and the thesis statement were difficult. I chose the difficult topic though it is very difficult for me to write an essay, so I suppose it will be the hard work. The bibliography’s content, which I found on the Internet, is also difficult to understand, so it takes me a long time.
Why I am writing my essay step by step is, it is important to make a structure of text for forward. Even if we read the book or article, there are hook or thesis statements and so forth. I think we are unaccustomed to writing the English essay more than Japanese one. For that, it is better to write the essay step by step.

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IE3T-Haruka.T
5/6/2013 08:22:05 pm

In writing my introduction I had a hard time on searching for information. Also reading and understanding the contents was difficult too. I had to check the meaning of almost everyword inthe article to understand it completely.
The reason I am writing my essay step by step is to understand and learn the methods of writing an essay. We can't learn all the methods all at once so we have o do it one at a time.Also by checking it bit by bit we can find small mistakes that we might be overlooking.

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IE3-Natsumi
5/7/2013 11:22:52 pm

The most difficulty for me was how to make persuasive sentences. Even if the reader disagrees to my position, I have to insist that my position is better, so I thought the explanation of the reason was important. I was care about it in particular. It is also difficult to choose the appropriate information from the internet because I have to find the good information for the reason.
The reason why I write my essay step-by-step is confirming the process and making better essay each time. I’m not used to write such essay, so it is good for me to understand how to make the right structures.

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