These are two handouts I’ve used in my class. One is a model outline based on the sample essay on death penalty and the other is for students to fill out.

Sample Outline

Essay Outline form

This is a handout that I made for my class explaining how to write a reference for online resources and Japanese resources (I am allowing my students to use one or two resources in Japanese in addition to English resources). This is in the MLA style. Please feel free to modify and let me know if you spot any errors.

Reference Writing

This is an adaptation of the essay on death penalty has been in the resource binder. I added more citations and listed the works cited. Although I used the MLA style for the list, I simply used serial numbers following the order of appearance in the text. If you want to follow the MLA style more closely, you might want to change them to cited page numbers.

One thing I was not able to demonstrate is the use of quotation.

sample-essay.doc

This handout presents some basic information about quoting source material for the persusive essay, including the placement of quotes within sentences and verbs used to introduce quotations. Following that, on the second page, there are some quotations which students can practice on. Although the handout does not mention any particular style, the examples on the first page follow APA format.

Discussing the differences between quotation and paraphrase might be a good way to lead into this activity and it would be helpful if students brought their sources to the class to practice with. It could also be a lot of fun to talk about the quotes and invite students to agree or disagree with them, providing their own backing for or against the claims contained within. We had a great time analyzing the Sugimoto quote in my class.

Quoting.doc

Here’s a file I uploaded:

Autumn semester EAP presentation on writing assignment 2