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授業テーマ	This course builds students’ academic writing skills from the paragraph to the research essay level. The content for writing topics is current issues (e.g., global warming or aging society) and various genres of academic writing are looked at (e.g., narratives, summaries, comparisons, opinions, reports and research essays).
授業のねらい・到達目標	The goal of this course is to develop students’ academic writing skills. Students will be able to analyze currents issues and write about them in various academic writing genres to express their opinions on the issues and to research experts’ opinions using web-based resources. The final goal is for students to write an acceptable academic research essay.
授業の方法	This is an academic writing course that focuses on students’ academic writing needs. Each class will introduce a specific writing genre or target (e.g., thesis statements or topic sentences), will involve student pair-work discussing writing topics and progress and, will finish with doing academic writing. Students will learn to take notes, as well as practice planning, writing, and revising different types of writing about their topics. They will also learn to use web-based resources to develop their academic writing skills.
事前学修・事後学修，授業計画コメント	Students are required to download files from BlackBoard and prepare approximately one hour outside of class each week.

授業計画
1	Academic Comparisons (1): Writing a Comparison Paragraph Preparation: Read from pages 1 - 2
2	Academic Comparisons (2): Writing a Comparison Essay Preparation: Read from pages 3 - 4
3	Academic Comparisons (3): Vocabulary and Grammar for Writing Comparison Essays Preparation: Read from pages 5 - 6
4	Academic Comparisons (4): Writing Comparison Outlines Preparation: Read from pages 7 - 8
5	Academic Comparisons Due and Teacher Feedback Preparation: Revised Comparisons and Peer feedback
6	Academic Opinions (1): Writing an Opinion Paragraph Preparation: Read from pages 1 - 2
7	Academic Opinions(2): Writing an Opinion Essay Preparation: Read from pages 3 - 4
8	Academic Opinions (3): Vocabulary and Grammar for Writing an Opinion Essay Preparation: Read from pages 5 - 6
9	Academic Opinions (4): Writing Opinion Outlines Preparation: Read from pages 7 - 8
10	Academic Opinions Due and Teacher Feedback Preparation: Revised Opinions and Peer feedback
11	Academic Research Essay (1): Writing an Academic Research Essay Preparation: Read from pages 1 - 3
12	Academic Research Essay (2): Writing Thesis Statements, Quoting and Referencing Preparation: Read from pages 4 - 6
13	Academic Research Essay (3): Doing Questionnaire Research Preparation: Read from pages 6 - 8
14	Academic Research Essay (4): Writing Academic Essay Outtlines Preparation: Read from pages 9 - 11
15	Semester Review: Academic Research Essays Due

その他
教科書	Files from BlackBoard
成績評価の方法及び基準	平常点(15%)、Comparison Assignment, Opinion Assignment and Research Essay(70%)、Self-Study(15%)
オフィスアワー	The lecturer will be available before class in the teacher's lounge and after in the classroom.