Summary: We reviewed your drafts with WAVE. Then, I met with each of you and advised you about any formatting or citation issues. Finally, we got back, and I explained the homework.

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

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

~Robert Frost

Seaburn, C. (2020, May ??). How to format your paper in APA style in 2021 [Video].

Youtube: Smart Student.

Do WAVE for your essay before emailing your 2nd draft!

W = Put your paper through one of the webpages for APA Essay Write & Improve

A = APA Style -Owl Purdue

V = Veritus Certify! Check against Plagiarism -Leander Hughes

E = Check all Explanations attachments below for draft one and email it to me.

“Explanations” Attachments:

APA 7th Student Paper Online Writing Lab OWL Purdue

First-Name_Last-Name_Instructions-for-APA-Writing_Use-this-to-TypeDownload

AEW2__APA_Writers-AssessmentDownload

AEW2_Final Draft_Sample_Same as Workshop 05 Synthesized Notes

A-very-quick-guide-to-APA-7th

A-Quick-Guide-to-APA-7th

Homework due via email (Sending earlier than the deadline is great for quicker feedback to you!):

Due via email 05/20/2024 by 5 PM:

1. Please remember to follow:

   A). The formatting guidelines are provided by the quick APA Style guidelines attached.

   B). the organization of an essay with topic sentences that support each paragraph based on what you learned in class with in-text citations.

C). When you send your paper, please send a clean paper and accepting all track changes. Feel free to delete my comments because I have a copy.

2. Your paper needs to be typed with double-spaced lines, and between 1,200-1,500 words now, so please use the word count tool in Microsoft Word and type the word count number at the end of your paper before the Sources Cited section like this:

Word Count: 1,235 

3. Please make sure that your name, draft number, AEW course name, date, and title are in the attachment file  like this: 

‘Your Name’_AEW2_2nd_Draft_

4. An option to do Write & Improve practice essay: The five improved essays are due by 06/05/2024. 

You can get feedback and editing to improve your writing as much as you like and please improve the essay by rewriting it. Our goal for this class is the B2 level. However, if you get a C1, why not challenge to try to get a C2? Could you please do at least one entry on the essay topic you would like to write about in detail? Here is the convenient link:

Write & Improve