東京理科大学 Writing & Composition 1b: Link for basic writing rules・基本的な書きのルール

Hello!

How are you? As support for our latest writing assignment, here is a link to a new blog page I have created for all of you about some formatting and stylistic rules for academic writing. 

Go to this link here to see the page. Review it as many times as you need, as from here on I will be looking more closely at points on formatting, style, and voice (態) in your writing assignments. 

Look especially at the formatting rules on connecting short sentences to make longer sentences, as some of you still sometimes tend to write shorter sentences and do not connect them together to make longer statements when I see you can! 

I would like all of you to also look especially at the style rules about names of people and places, plus the rule on voice (態). These are very important!

From here on, I will look more strictly for how well you are connecting sentences and how well you follow the stylistic rules for names and places, plus the kind of voice you use, in your writing. 

I will keep updating and improving the blog pages for support on points of writing. 

Good luck! See you next week!

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東京理科大学 A英3: Mid-term (spring final) writing assignment Word formatting・中間作文のワードフォーマット

Hello!

As promised, here is the Word formatting for the mid-term (spring final) writing assignment. 

I have set it in an extra-large image size so you can see how the formatting looks - so my apologies if you have trouble seeing this on your Smartphones. It may be better to view this on a computer. 

Feel free to print this out. It comes from an actual student composition from last year. The topic is different from what you are writing about, but the formatting is the same. 

Please remember that any font is okay - so long as you set your typing to 12-point size. This is important as it is still small enough to fit on a page while still being at a readable size.

I recommend serifed fonts like Times New Roman, or the font I use on this blog - Georgia. Fonts like these, especially Times New Roman, are easily readable and save space. 

Good luck, and I'll see you next week in our last meeting. 

See you then!

Image: Screenshot of anonymously-rendered student sample composition. All rights reserved on content to the original student.