Introduction presentations are today!
Did you submit your Introduction Paragraph 2 to Kevin? He will correct and return it so you can save it in your Google Drive with the other paragraphs.
Organization style
In your Introduction Paragraph 2, you mentioned how you will organize your report. There are basically two variations ...
Organize topics by Authentic & ESL Materials. Which one should be first?
- Authentic – streaming radio, streaming TV news, Reddit, e-reading, watching movies, TV or movie trailers, online comics, etc.
- ESL – Xreading, on-line ESL sites, ESl on Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.
Example:
Miho Takaku - report in Tsurumi Review 52
(scroll down about halfway)
Assembling your graduation report (part 1)
- Decide your organization concept.
- Create a new document in your Google Drive (title: Your Name Report Draft)
- If you have a title, type it at the top.
- Paste your introduction paragraphs 1 & 2 below the title.
- Find all of your topic paragraphs on the Lifelong English website, and copy and paste them into the document.
- Be sure to paste the paragraphs in the same order as your organization concept.
* Your best blog post will be one of the topic paragraphs. Photos will be in black & white. - Write a conclusion for your report.
Assembling your graduation report (part 2)
- There should be a sentence at the beginning of each topic paragraph that explains what you are going to talk about. This is explained in detail at the * section below.
- Tuesday class only: Add one academic quote in the appropriate place in your report. For example, if you believe Authentic Materials are essential, add a quote about it before or after one of your paragraphs that use authentic materials. [Thurs. class doesn't need to do this.]
- Look at each of your paragraphs and make sure they agree with the main points in your introduction. If they don’t, you need to edit them and make sure they agree with your introduction.
- Write a conclusion. Your conclusion will repeat some of the main ideas from your introduction, but hopefully using different words. (More about conclusions below.)
- Paste your Bibliography after the conclusion. This is a list of all the sources, hard sources or online sources, you used during the year. Many of your sources will be URLs. Be sure to include the source for the quotes you used in #2 above.
* Adding a sentence at the beginning of each topic paragraph
Look at Maya’s streaming radio paragraph below:
Maya - 9/15/2015
I used jango and installed it on my iPhone. I had used only YouTube before, but now I like jango better than YouTube because jango has various kinds of music and the sound is clear. I use this app everyday when I go to school. I like Taylor swift, so I often listen to her songs on jango. I learned new vocabulary from her song, 'Shake it off!' This expression means 「ドンマイ！」「気にしないで！」in Japanese. I want to listen to various music more!
If you start your paragraph like this, it will seem too sudden or random (突然あるいはランダム). You should add one or two sentences, like ...
Streaming Radio is an authentic way to practice listening skills. There are many streaming radio apps for smart phones. I used jango and installed it on my iPhone. I had used only YouTube before, but now I like jango better than YouTube because jango has various kinds of music and the sound is clear. I use this app everyday when I go to school. I like Taylor swift, so I often listen to her songs on jango. I learned new vocabulary from her song, 'Shake it off!' This expression means 「ドンマイ！」「気にしないで！」in Japanese. I want to listen to various music more!
Add one or two sentences like the above to each of your topic paragraphs to explain what you’re introducing. If you already have a sentence like that, then you don’t have to do this step.
Writing a Conclusion
- How did the topics covered in the Lifelong English Seminar help your English?
- Will the resources you used help you in the future?
- Which resources are most effective? Least effective?
- Will you continue to use any of these resources? (Please try to be positive!)
- What do you need to spend more time on?
- How do you imagine your study habits in the future?
* The bibliography comes after the conclusion.
Read your report!
Read the entire report a few times and fix any mistakes. Does the report make sense as a whole? If not, you may need to change some words or sentences. The report needs to sound good as one complete composition.
When you’re finished, look at your word count. Do you have over 2,500 words? Is every word in your report spelled correctly? Are there any grammatical errors? Did you fix any issues in red print that Kevin found in your sentences? Did you list all sources in the correct format? If so, you’re finished! Now, send it to Kevin.
Congratulations! You will (probably) graduate this year!
To Do
1) Send your conclusion paragraph to Kevin; he will send it back to you with corrections.
2) Create the document that will be your graduation report as shown above.
3) Check everything again and again.
4) Make sure your Bibliography is complete and in alphabetical order
By next class: Put your report together! Make it perfect, including the Bibliography,! (No Thurs. class next week; Nov. 3 is Culture Day!)
Next is Report Formatting; this is important! Don't be absent!
