電気通信大学 AWE II: Fall semester final writing assignment ・後期末作文

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce here the final writing assignment for the year. 

While I have given all of you the handout about the assignment, I will post it here as another way to help remind you about it, and what you can write on.  

Review of topics

For our final writing assignment, you have a choice of themes! This semester, we wrote about these themes:

• Comparison and contrast (比較対照) similarities and differences in educational systems

• Comparison and contrast of works or art or music

We did not have enough time for another writing assignment as what was listed on the syllabus. So I will adjust the grading scheme so all of you will still get the full credit with the two writing assignments.

Task

For the final assignment, you can choose one (1) of the following topics, both of which are about the future:

1. Our current theme - Japan and the future

2. A variation on this theme - your goals, plans, and ideas for your future working life and lifestyle after you graduate from UEC

Activity/approach
As a way of thinking about the first theme of Japan and the future, look at the picture at the top. It is the Ginza, taken just last year. 

Now contrast it with the picture below, of the Ginza taken 50 years earlier, in 1967:

How has it changed over time? The Ginza of 2017 might have been the future that people in 1967 imagined. How will Japan change in the future? What might things be like 50 years or so from now, in 2067 or 2068? 

This is just one example of how you might be able to get started on this theme, if you choose to write about it!

How much to write

I’d like you to write as much as you can, at least 4-5 paragraphs' worth of writing – though if you can write more, go for it! 

I already have some supporting blogposts on the Daily Sekaijin blog to help you with ideas and information that can help you in shaping your writing. 

Deadline (締め切り)

For our final assignment, we will have a flexible deadline. You can turn this in next week if you can finish it, on February 2nd (2/2). However, if you need an extra week to complete it, you can finish it and turn it in on February 9th (2/9). You will not be late if you turn it in on February 9th. 

Special note: But even if you turn it in one week early on February 2nd, you still have to come on February 9th  as we will do the student survey on that date.

One way or another, I would like you to begin work on your first draft (下書き) in class today in your notebooks in pencil, then work on this outside of class.

The final version should be typed up on a Word document, with the correct formatting as I have shown you before about name, class, period, and that it is the final writing assignment, with a title and the correct spacing, when you hand it in.

Good luck with this! I look forward to reading your great writing on either of these themes. 

See you next week!

Images: Top - by Gary - DSC08269 - Chuo-dori Ginza, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40961932/Ginza in 1967 - By Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A. - Tokyo - Chuo-Dori, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60804070