Welcome to Writing III. I'm Rick Lavin, and I'm looking forward to teaching you this year. I come from the UK. I like watching movies and playing table tennis.
Writing III is focused on writing fluency. What do I mean by that? Well, in speaking classes, I'm sure you are used to speaking without much preparation. When you do that, you often make mistakes. But you don't worry about the mistakes, because the main goal is to get other people to understand your meaning. Writing III is like that: our first aim is to be able to write quickly, so that we can communicate what we are thinking and what we have been doing to our readers.
In order to become more fluent in speaking, it is necessary to practice a lot. In the same way, it is necessary to practice writing a lot in order to become fluent at writing. Therefore, in this class, I'd like you to write 10,000 words during the semester.
As you know, you'll do your writing on your blogs. You'll be writing various kinds of posts, including:
- Book reviews: at least 1 a week, 13 for the semester [Tags: books, reviews]
- Essays: details later
- General blog posts (as many as possible; at least one a week)
- Photo Homework (students going on Kaigai Kenshuu; other students optional): [Tag: photoHW]
- Juppun ha Juubun [Tag: Juppun ha Juubun] (Please copy the tag exactly!). If you are late, use Not Juppun ha Juubun.]
- Typing posts: Mr Tomei will be administering the typing homework. After you have done a typing homework, please paste the content into a new post and put it on your blog. [Tag: typing]
Your friends in this class and in the other classes also have blogs. You can find their blogs at the WinK Home site.
The general sequence of classes is as follows:
[A Class]
- 9:00~9:05: Logging in and getting ready to blog
- 9:05~9:15: Juppun ha Juubun (timed writing)
- 9:20~: Attendance + Main activities of the week
[C Class]
- 10:40~10:45: Logging in and getting ready to blog
- 10:45~10:55: Juppun ha Juubun (timed writing)
- 11:00~: Main activities of the week
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