Summary:

First, I explained how you need to check your spelling and grammar before I check your Write & Improve Essays. Please use these, or in Microsoft Word, and learn from the mistakes yourself first.

Grammarly Free Spell Checker

Language Tool Free Spell Checker

Then, we settled in and you viewed samples of promising notes and student references.

Then, you discussed the homework that you took notes on about your issue that you will write a paper. When the other student speaks about their issue, I remind you to keep asking them questions.

For inspiration and details on how to move forward with your research, I shared these documents to help you narrow your focus and ensure APA style formatting.

A Writer’s Quote to Consider:

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

-Steven King

A Very Quick Guide APA 7th

APA 7th Edition Quick Guide

Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing Sources

Lastly, we discussed the homework again for the next class. 

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 04 – Parts of your essay

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 05 – Now you can read

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 06 – Balance

Homework due at 1 pm the day before Workshop 04 by taking photos of your notes and inserting all the images in your Google Document under the titles Research Articles #3 and #4 (on the same issue to write your paper) in your shared Google document. Other students get to see your work and share it. These articles should be general information or wide reads with notes.

You are researching the Basic Information about your essay. Please also only use a maximum of two articles from the same publication.

If your Articles #1 and #2 on your wide reads on the basic information were too short, could you please add more notes as much as you can? There should be at least 2 pages of notes for each reading (article). Could you also put the pictures of your notes in your Google Share file for Workshop 03 so I can edit the APA References?

Note-taking Sample on Child Labor:

Free Database Engines off-campus to collect research for your APA Paper: 

Carrot 2: Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term and clicking on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart, which helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open-access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent and free, including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidence for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.

Google Scholar: Google Scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also helps you cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA!

CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world, giving free access to information that is very informative and easy to understand.

Learning About Global Issues–Specifically in relation to Chuo University Faculty of Law English courses. The team hopes that this website is helpful for students and other people in Japan (and in other countries) to develop their knowledge and critical understanding of different global issues.

A Very Quick Guide APA 7th

APA 7th Edition Quick Guide

2. An option to write a Write & Improve

Five improved essays are due by the last class in January. You can choose the essays and the time of writing freely, and the goal is to choose and write when you have time.