Lab Day

Welcome to class today! There are 3 required activities that you will need to complete, and then you can take the rest of the time to revise and edit your essay.

Please remember to read all of these instructions carefully so that your essay will be the best that it can be! 

1. Take this survey about your homework from last night:

• Homework Check - October 8th 

2. Check how many academic words you use in your essay using the Academic Word List Checker. 

*You will need be able to copy and paste the text of your latest draft (Draft 2), so make sure that you have downloaded it from turnitin.com or have it available on a flash drive or from your email.

1. Go to http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng in a new tab or window.
2. Copy the text of your essay (not reference page).
3. Delete the words in the big white box labeled "MAIN TEXT"
4. Paste the text of your essay into the "MAIN TEXT", and click the yellow "SUBMIT" button.
5. On the left hand side of the screen, there are the yellow words "Academic Words (academic)." Next to that, in the 4th column is a percentage. This is the percent of academic words in your essay.
6. Write down the percentage at the end of your essay like this: AWL 7.6%. For your final draft you will need at least 7% of your essay to be academic words. If you have lower than 7%, you can look over your essay when you start to revise it. 

3. Try to put your essay in APA format as best as you can. 

We've talked about APA references, but part of an essay that is important is the formatting. Formatting is how the paper looks on paper. It makes your paper look nice and people (especially teachers!) will be happier to read your papers if they are formatted correctly.

Correctly-Formatted APA Essays should have:

• A title page with page numbers
• 1 inch margins (top, bottom, and sides)
• Times New Roman or Calibri font 
• 12 pt font size
• Double-spaced
• No spaces between the paragraphs, just indents

I am not expecting you to be perfect with this, but I want you to try to put your paper in APA format today.

• APA Paper Template - This is a template, which means that it has the correct framework for your essay, but it doesn't have the actual essay. You can use it to start the formatting for your own paper. I would suggest downloading this, and then putting your essay into the format that is set up already for you. This has a perfect example of a Reference page.

•  The Most Effective Economic System - This is a sample Compare/Contrast paper (with correct APA formatting) so you can see how the template looks with an essay in it. :)

Rest of Class Time:
When you finish the two activities above, work on revising your essay. You can use the feedback from Draft 1, Draft 2, and your peer review to revise. Here are some things to think about before you turn your paper in:

• Thesis Statement: Do you have a purpose and points of comparison? (see page 155 for help on purposes, and page 156 for example thesis statements)
• Paragraphs: Do you have information and facts to support your ideas? Are your paragraphs organized clearly with transition words? 
• Purpose: Did you include your purpose in EACH paragraph? Usually this is the concluding sentence of each paragraph.
• References and citations: Do you have three references? Do you have an in-text citation for each reference? Did you correctly cite and reference? (Refer to class handouts and teachers comments)

Final Draft Requirements:

• Yellow Rubric, Tutor Form, Peer Review (Packet) – Due Friday 5pm, in my box in Rm 103.
• Final Draft – Due Friday 5 pm, on turnitin.com
• Title Page (1 page)
• Main essay (at least 2 pages)
• At the end of the essay, show the AWL %
• References page (1 page)

***If you have done all of the 3 activities and revised your essay, you can:

• Study for your Academic A Vocabulary List 3 Quiz tomorrow
• Collocates found in your packet in the third section
• Study the practice quiz you took today
• Check your grades on Micrograde. You can go straight to Micrograde from the "Grades" tab at the top of this blog.
• Sign up for your first Integrated Writing Test in the lab for this Friday. Remember that this is a practice test, but you still need to do your best. You will need to sign up like you did for your 30-minute essay: elc.byu.edu/testSignup 

Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we reviewed what conclusions need to contain and then learned about how to make good comments on a peer review. We finished with a peer-review exercise together found in the yellow packet. Here is the PowerPoint for today's lesson.

Homework:

• Spend 30 minutes revising or editing your paper
• Study the collocates (last section) on Academic A Vocabulary List 3 

Remember to go to a tutor before Friday! You can sign up for a tutor at the ELC or the ESL Writing Lab.

ELC Tutor Sign-Up

ESL Writing Lab

Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we talked about credibility, how credibility is important in academic writing, and how we can make out credibility greater in our essays. Next, we reviewed APA and practiced doing in-text citations and reference page citations for an academic paper. You can download the worksheet here: APA In-text and Reference Citation Practice. The PowerPoint we used today can be found here: 6 October 2014.

Homework:

For tomorrow:

• Journal: write for 20 minute and at least ½ page on the required prompt below
• Think about how you changed your essay from the first draft to the second draft. For this journal, please write about at least two things that you have changed between your drafts and why you changed them.
• At the end of your entry, please write the amount of time you spent on this assignment.
• Read pgs. 115-116, do Exercise #10 
• PRINT A COPY OF YOUR DRAFT 2 to bring to class tomorrow 

For this week sometime:

• Go to a tutor and get corrections/feedback for your essay 
• Come to a writing conference with me 
• Revise your essay before the essay is due

Lab Day and Homework

Hello class, we have a lot to do today, so make sure that you come committed to work today! :)

Next Friday (10/10), you will be taking your first Integrated Writing test in the lab. Remember, we have 5 Integrated Essays that we will do throughout the semester, so we're going to take today and do another practice essay.

Integrated Writing In-Class Practice 2

Please follow these instructions:

1. Open the document in the IW Writing #2 folder called “IW 2 YOUR NAME”
2. Save the document as “IW 2 Sarah Lutz” (or whatever your name happens to be!) on the desktop. You will write your response there. 
3. Open the document called “IW Notes and Planning” if you want to take notes electronically. I have also provided you with a paper copy. Save this document as “IW Notes YOUR NAME” on the desktop. 
4. Reading: When your teacher tells you to, please click this link and start your reading. Reading Passage
5. Listening: You have two minutes to listen to the lecture. You may only listen to the lecture one time. Take good notes. Open the listening passage found in the Integrated Writing #2 folder titled "Effect of television." Check your headphones and if the listening passage works. 
6. Writing: Please open this link in another window/tab Online Timer. Set the timer for 20 minutes. GO ON to the writing document called “IW 2 YOUR NAME”. Start the time and start writing your essay.

When you finish writing, please write down the number of words you have written in your essay at the bottom. Please save your document(s), then select them and drag them into the folder titled "Finished IW" in the classes folder. If you need help with any of these things, raise your hand and I will help you.

After the integrated writing, you can do the following:

1. Create a reference page for your essay using the sources your brought today. Use resources such as Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab) & the APA handout I gave you yesterday.
2. Study for the Academic A Vocabulary List 2 Quiz tomorrow. 
• The quiz will be focused on synonyms of the words, so for this quiz you should be able to recognize the synonym group, and be able write a sentence with the word you choose that matches the synonym group shown.
• You can study the synonym groups on the Quizlet game Scatter or Space Race

Homework:

• Bring a printed draft of your introduction to class
• Study for Academic A Vocabulary List 2 Quiz
• Work on finishing the 2nd Draft of your essay for Friday by midnight (NEW DUE DATE!).

2nd Draft Requirements:

Essay Content and Length

• An introduction with a thesis statement, three points of comparison in body paragraphs with support, and a conclusion
• 2 or more pages, double-spaced

Plagiarism

• Any place that you used words directly from another source should have “quotation marks” around those words.
• A Reference Page at the end of your paper that lists all of the resources you used for your ideas (with links to the websites). These do not need to be formatted correctly, but the link must be shown.

Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we looked at integrating sources and APA, and talked a little bit about introductions. One thing I want to remind you of is to not stress out about this. We will have lots of time to get better at this throughout the semester!  Here is the PowerPoint we used in class (Use it to help you with your homework).

Homework: 

• Draft your introduction (not going to be checked tomorrow, but you need to start!)
• Complete the APA Reference Game worksheet (if you didn't finish in class)
• Bring 3 sources that you have looked at or used when writing about your paper. 
• You need to have the author, year, title, and publishing information.
• You can use any of the sources we used for background knowledge, or newer ones that I introduced to you so that you could get additional information, or any sources you have found on your own

Write them out like the example below.

Example:
Author: Gary E. Clayton
Book Title: Economics: Principles & Practices.
Publisher: Glencoe
Location: New York
Year: 2005
Pages: 33-39

Background Information Sources

• http://www.tulelake.k12.ca.us/ths/teachers/mhartung/classes/economics/Student_Edition_Text/support/PDF/docs/chap02.pdf pg. 33-39 (This link has been disabled since I introduced it to you, I’m working on making this information available to you again)
• http://gozips.uakron.edu/~ely2/three%20economic%20systems.htm
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j4G5S-bI0w (YouTube video)
• Quest Reading and Writing, pg. 49-50

Additional Sources

• Types of Economic Systems (website). Shmoop.com - this is student help website that has a lot of information on different topics. This information is more detailed. 
• Types of Economic Systems (PowerPoint). This is a PowerPoint that is available through a slide sharing site. The information is basic. 
• Comparative Economic Systems (website). This is also a student help website specifically for social studies and subjects relating to them. The information is the most detailed.

Classwork and Homework

Today in class we talked about measuring performance and what we need to do in order to accomplish our goals that we have set. Then we talked about transitions for comparison and contrast and did an activity with them. The last part of class we focused on the Integrated Writing, specifically looking at the things that we could improve. Here's a link to the PowerPoint that we used today.

Homework:

• Pg. 166-167 Ex. 10, #2,3,5,7
• Revise your SMART goals (purple paper), and bring them to class for me to see

Journal and Homework

Today we talked about plagiarism and how to avoid it. If you want more information, go to plagiarism.org.

Homework:

For tomorrow

• Complete your 1st draft, due by noon tomorrow 
• Requirements: 
• Be at least one page double-spaced 
• Be 3 paragraphs long (remember to use the paragraph structure we learned, click here for a refresher) 
• Have a thesis statement with 3 subtopics 
• Submitted to turnitin.com

For Monday

• 30-minute Essay Prompt (but only work on it for 20!)
• Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Businesses should do anything they can to make a profit. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

OR

• You choose what you want to write about, just make sure it’s 20 minutes