Lab Day & Homework

Hello! For the first part of class, you need to click on the link below to take the QuID survey. This survey is designed for you to give me feedback about my class and teaching. It is completely anonymous, so you may feel comfortable giving as much or as little feedback as you wish. It should take you around 15-20 minutes.

For the remainder of the class period, you will be working on finding information for your classification essay topic. Please go to the classes folder and open the Classification Essay Planning - Day 1 document (Classes --> Lutz --> 12.15/1.30--> October 15 --> "classification-essay-planning-day 1-YourName"). Please save it with your name in the October 15 folder. You will need to bring this to class tomorrow completed!

If you have time, you can review Academic Vocabulary List 4. For the quiz tomorrow, you should know how to use these words in completing a cohesive paragraph.

• Academic Word List 4 Definitions

Homework:

• If you need to, finish your Classification Essay Planning you started in class (Due tomorrow in class)
• Bring your finalized essay topic to tell me at the beginning of class tomorrow.
• Study for your Academic A Vocabulary Word List 4 QUIZ

Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we reviewed how to classify and distinguish the principle of classification as we went over our homework from yesterday. We also applied these principles to our own ideas for our essays by filling out a chart in our green packets. For the remainder of the class, we wrote paragraphs in groups using words from Academic A Vocabulary List 4.  Here is the PowerPoint for today. Please meet in the lab (Rows 3-4) for class tomorrow.

Homework:

• Read essay on pg. 187-189, “Kinds of Consumers”
• Answer questions 1-6
• Finish the chart on the back of the "Classification Planning and Information" section in your green packet (pg. 6).

Classwork and Homework

In class today, we talked about motivation and demotivation and how they can affect your language learning (If you want to look at more funny Demotivators like we saw in class, you can go here). Remember that you are in charge of your motivation and how you deal with it. You can run from things when they get hard, you can wait to see some results. Here is the PowerPoint that we looked at today in class.

Homework:

• Read p. 183-185, and do Exercise 3 & 4 (Due tomorrow)
• Start thinking about your topic
• What do you want to write about?
• Look at your brainstorming

Classwork and Homework

Today in class we talked about what you need to complete for your final draft for tomorrow. We also took a quiz on the Academic A Vocabulary List 3. Lastly, we talked about what you need for introductions on integrated writing, and practiced writing an introduction in groups. Here is the PowerPoint that we used in class today. Use it to study for the integrated writing test tomorrow.

October 9, 2014 PowerPoint

Homework:

• Go to a tutor for your paper
• Fix your drafts so they show your best work for the final draft 
• Take your vocabulary midterm 
• Take your integrated writing test
• NO JOURNAL! (And the peasants rejoiced!)

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