Summary: We focused on editing the Works Cited entries from your notes. Then, the students communicated their issue development in pairs.

Outline of our Research Process:

1. Basic Information -Wide reading
2. Causes -Wide reading
3. Further Examples or Case Studies – Close reading
4. Effects -Close reading
5. Solutions -Close reading

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 09 -Write, repeat

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 10 -Revising

Documents:

Quick Guide to Citing in MLA 9th Edition

MLA 9th Quick Guide

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

-Augustine Og Mandino

Homework is due on Tuesday. At 1 pm the day before Workshop_06, please complete taking notes and insert the photos for these research notes on Articles #7 and #8.

MLA Note Sample:

Instructions for Homework Content:

1. Please, take your own articles #7 and #8. Make them count, and the notes should be at least three to four pages with in-text citations, and upload them to your Google Doc.

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

Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, treemap, 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, and it is 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!

Free Databases That Include Lists of Issues (If you cannot decide what essay you would like to write)

Learning About Global Issues—This website has been designed by Andy Barfield and his research team specifically for Chuo University Faculty of Law English courses to support student research in the Basic Research and Writing. More generally, his team hopes this website is helpful to students and others in Japan (and other countries) in developing their knowledge and critical understanding of global issues. Thank you, Andy!

Zenbird Media: Topics & Issues: Do you often think about researching issues related to your local community or Japan in general, but find the data is in Japanese? Then, Zenbird Media is for you!

Five improved essays are due by Workshop 14. You can choose the essays and the time of writing freely, but write and improve on no more than one essay each week.