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Chris Elvin

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Welcome to Chris Elvin's Rikkyo Reading and Writing Class

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Dear students,
Please access this blog weekly to check for news about the course, homework assignments, and updates.
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin

SYLLABUS

                                     Reading and Writing 1 (Spring 2018)
Email Chris Elvin: chriselvin@gmail.com Textbook: Lee, L., & Gundersen, E. (2011). Select readings: teacher-approved readings for today's students. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (Pre-Intermediate level)


Course Description and Objectives: This course is designed for students to learn academic reading and writing skills. Students will learn strategies to promote fluency and accuracy in reading and writing through a variety of activities including reading extensively and intensively, and writing compositions. The goal of this course is to acquire both effective reading and writing skills. However, the emphasis of the spring semester is placed on acquiring reading skills. 
In particular, students will: a) improve reading rate and comprehension skills, b) devel…
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Week 1

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Dear students,
Today you will write a two-paragraph review of a graded reader that you read recently. The first paragraph should describe the story (who, what, when, where, why, how) and finish with an in-text citation (the author's family name, comma, year of publication of the book you read enclosed by parentheses).
The second paragraph should be your opinion of the book.
Finally, you should write a full APA formatted reference for the book in the "References" (see page 20 of "Becoming A Better Writer".
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin
P.S. Please call me Mr. Elvin or Chris, not teacher.
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