アカデミック・ライティング１

授業テーマ	Preparing students to write academic essays in English.
授業のねらい・到達目標	The ultimate aim of this semester’s class is to prepare students to write their first academic essay in English. The first part of the class will establish the fundamentals of proper paragraphs. We will then move on to learning and practicing the basic parts of an essay, with the final project being a grammatically sound, well-organized, thoughtful, informative and engaging essay on an academic subject.
授業の方法	Each class will feature extensive in-class writing, along with discussion and guidance from the teacher. In the week between classes there will be extensive homework; students should be prepared for assignments that will require them to write something every day. The in-class writing and homework tasks are designed to make students practice writing both grammatically correct and meaningful sentences, as well as putting sentences together in logical order to create paragraphs and essays. Highly motivated students will appreciate that learning to write involves lots of writing practice.

授業計画
1	Introduction; what is academic writing? in-class diagnostic
2	writing a paragraph: basics
3	writing a paragraph: supporting details
4	writing a paragraph: coherence, transitions, conjunctions
5	writing a paragraph: style, editing
6	writing an essay: what is an essay? structure
7	writing an essay: introductions, body paragraphs, conclusions
8	writing an essay: editing
9	writing an essay: paraphrasing and summarizing
10	writing an essay: citing sources
11	writing an essay: research essays, structure, thesis statements
12	writing an essay: supporting arguments with sources
13	writing an essay: editing a research essay
14	consultations
15	review; final essays due

その他
教科書	Chin, Peter, et al., Academic Writing Skills, Student’s Book 1 , Cambridge University Press ISBN 978-1-107-63622-4, 2012
成績評価の方法及び基準	平常点(10%)、homework assignments(50%)、final essay(40%) Students who participate actively will succeed in this class. Students who are frequently late or who are absent from more than three classes will not receive credit for this class.