Welcome to Advanced Presentation 1. As you likely have surmised, this class focuses on enhancing each student's individual English presentation skills. All of our class material is or will be posted on this webpage; feel free to download and use any material you'd like.
Class #1 (week of September 3-7)
Introduction, class outline; assign introductory essay
Class #2 (week of Sept 10-15)
Computer paper guidelines Storch & Tapper (2009)
Class #3 (week of September 17-21
Class #4 (week of September 24-28)
- Petchko (2011) Input enhancement, noticing, and incidental vocabulary acquisition.
- Notes on abstracts
- MacLean & Elwood (2009) Digital natives.
- Yashima, Zenuk-Nishide, & Shimizu (2004)
Class #5 (week of October 1-5)
To be announced.
Class #6 (week of October 15-19)
Coming soon.
Class #7 (week of October 22-26
It was a dark and stormy night ...
Today we'll be doing some editing using this article.
Class #8 (week of October 29-November 2)
The same mouse paper with comments.
Class #9 (week of November 5-9)
To be announced soon.
Class #10 (week of November 12-16)
To be announced soon.
Databases
Google Scholar (everything)
PubMed (medicine, biology)
Springer (science, technology, medicine)
Elsevier (science, technology)
Sage (Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Tech and Medicine)
JournalSeek (all subjects)
Wiley (all subjects)
APA Format
Intro to APA style (here as a pdf)
APA style (here as a pdf)
An example using Anne of Green Gables.
Tables and Figures
For tables and figures, you will also need to follow APA style.
Table example #1 (Nuts and Bolts) and as a pdf
Table example #2 (Capstone) and as a pdf
Figure example (Nuts and Bolts) and as a pdf
Image examples (Capstone) and as a pdf
Writing
As you know from class, I require polite email. Recall, too, that if you send me a file, the filename has a certain form.
Here's an example of the report style that you should use.
Introductions
Conclusions