<概要/Course Content Summary>
The objective of this seminar is to acquire basic writing skills and research skills that are needed for research paper and thesis writing. In particular,how to write an abstract, to structure sections and chapters, to write topic sentences, and to organize thoughts and ideas as well as how to provide evidences for one's own arguments will be taught.
<到達目標/Goals,Aims>
Three major textbooks will be recommende in the seminar and students are supposed to fully understand those textbooks.
<授業計画/Schedule>
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1
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why are research and writing skills important?
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2
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What it means to write a paper? What are research skills?
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3
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Paragrah setting and topic sentence
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4
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Paragrah setting and topic sentence
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5
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Relatioship among paragraphs
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6
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How to organize chapters and sections
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7
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endnotes and footnotes
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8
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What is the first hand soruce? Waht is the secondary source?
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9
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Quotation
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Reference
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Table of contents
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Conclusion and Introduction
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Students' presentation
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Students' presentation
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15
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Discusson
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The contents of the course may be adjusted to the needs of the interest of the students who enroll this seminar.
<成績評価基準/Evaluation Criteria>
平常点(出席,クラス参加,グループ作業の成果等)
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40%
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Class Attendance and Students' Active Participation in the Classroom Discussion
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小レポート
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20%
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Writiing logically and the ability of writing coherently
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中間レポート試験
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20%
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The capacity to develop one's own arguments
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期末レポート試験・論文
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20%
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The capacitsy to develop one's ideas and to write coherently
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The evaluation will be made based on the presentations in the class as well as the progress report of the thesis or the research paper.
<テキスト/Textbook>
will be distribiuted later
<参考文献/Reference Book>
Based on the interest of the Students who enroll this seminar, reference books will be suggested.
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will be informed later
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