Welcome to ESL 114!
This blog is designed for the ESL 114 class of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On this blog, I will be sharing the schedule for classes, and making announcements about assignments, essay due date, etc.
Hope everyone enjoys this class and blogging!
As the first day handout says, you need to write a journal every other week, and it'll be ongoing assignments even though I don't mention it in class.
As I talked about, you may use either Blogger or Twitter. I know many of you haven't heard about these websites before, so you might don't have any idea about the first step to move on. However, you do NOT worry at all! It's a really piece of cake! I want to ENCOURAGE (not "force") you to use one of them once you stay in the U.S. From now on, you're going to meet a lot of friends with different backgrounds on campus, and those websites will be interesting playgrounds for you guys to build great social networks!
Also, we'll be having a class in a computer lab on Aug 31, so everyone can join the websites finally. However, before we have a class in a lab, I want you to take a look at tutorials about how to start Blogger or Twitter, and here are Youtube videos about using the sites.
Welcome to week one and to the class blog. I'll be posting the outline for each day's lesson on this site. You' re not going to get lost if you keep on tracking postings on this blog.
On the first day, you're going to get to know each other by introducing yourselves since you'll meet new classmates and a new teacher! It's going to be exciting!Also, I'm going to pass out a handout, which explains this course. If you miss the first class, please download the handout so you can know about the course. Also, here's homework for the first class:
Visit our class website, and bookmark it in your computer. Please take a look at the site, and email me at ee2@illinois.edu to prove you visit the site.
Hope you had lots of fun on your first day in U of Illinois. See you in class! :D
This course is about an introduction to academic writing for undergraduate students from non-English speaking countries. All of you are internationals, so you might feel unfamiliar with a different language, different environment, different currency, and finally different academic writing styles in the United States! However, don't panic at all! You'll be getting used to the American academic writing step by step, so you're able to get a general understanding of it at the end of this semester.
On the first day, we're going to meet in room 336, Davenport Hall, which says 'Agricultural Building' on the facade, and this room will be our classroom for the entire semester except for some lab experiences. Hope everyone can easily find the building.
Plus, I expect some confusion for a while at the beginning of the semester as always, but again, do NOT panic at all. I'm not going anywhere, and will be here next to you. Please feel free to contact me or ask me at ee2@illinois.edu when you have problems. If you see this posting at home drinking coke, chatting with your roommate, then you're on the right track! Keep on following me! :D
Intro to Academic Writing (ESL 114 M) 3-3:50 MWF, Davenport Hall 336
Office Hours: 1-1:50 MW, FLB 3050 or by appointment (Please bother me a lot!)
Homework
1. The final version for the research paper is due 12/16. Name your file as Your NetID_ESL114M_Rsrch(final).doc.
2. Underline the thesis statement and topic sentences when you submit the paper. By doing this, you can reflect your paper in a critical way to figure out your paper includes essential factors for the research paper.
As the first day handout says, you need to write a journal every other week, and it'll be ongoing assignments even though I don't mention it in class.
