電気通信大学 ASE II: 1/21 board notes・1月21日のボードノート

Hello! 

How are you? Above are the board notes for our class on 1/21. This is what you should have in your summaries. 

I'll look forward to seeing all of you next week for your final presentations. 

Take care and good luck!

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電気通信大学 AE2Y II: Final notes for final paper & final presentation・期末作文・プレゼンテーションの付記

Hello!

How are you? Here are some final notes for all of you for next week's final paper hand-in and final presentation.  

Please remember the following:

1. Final papers will be due at the beginning of class

2. After the papers are handed in, then we will do the final presentations

* Please also remember that there is no 16th week - so next week (1/28) is our last class!

For the presentations:

1. You cannot use your abstracts or final papers as notes for your presentation - outlines only! 

2. Everyone must be here on time!

* If your pair partner or one of your group members is late for the presentation - the whole pair or whole group will have points taken off from the presentation - so pairs and groups should come together! 

I'll see all of you on time next week. Take care - and good luck!

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電気通信大学 AE2Y II: Academic citation slide link・引用のスライドリンク

Happy New Year to you all! 

How are you? This is a short post with the link where you can access my slide show about citation (引用) in academic writing and presentation. 

The picture at the top is a screenshot of a Word document reference list page. It is the Word version of the same reference list I showed at the end of my slide show. 

Click here for the slideshow. It will take you to a website called SlideShare. Take a look at it. 

You may find that it is easier to see this on a computer or tablet rather than a smartphone. If you do not have a computer, then use a smartphone. But if you cannot access the link on a smartphone, then please go to a computer or tablet to access it - or team up with your partner(s) and review it together on a computer. It is important! 

While the rules for citation may seem difficult, they are important to follow in showing the sources of information and content that support your final writing and presentation topics. 

I will require that you show where you get the information that supports the content within your topic for your final writing and presentation assignment, and that you follow these rules exactly in your citation and reference lists in both your written paper and your presentation.  


Watch the slide show where you can access it. Watch it as many times as you need. 


NEW - now here are the board notes for our class on 1/7:



Happy New Year to all of you once again! 

See you next week! 

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東京理科大学 Listening & Speaking 1b: 12/16 board notes・12月16日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? Here are the board notes for our class on 12/16. 

Now below are the other board notes: 

See you next week with your great final presentations!

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東京理科大学 技術英語: 12/10 board notes・12月10日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? Here are the board notes for our class on 12/10. 

Once again - if you would like to review the final presentation project, click on this link. 

See you next week with your great presentations!

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東京理科大学 技術英語: 11/26 & 12/3 board notes・11月26日と12月3日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? Here are the board notes for our class on 12/3. Above are the main board notes. 

As a reminder - if you would like to review the final presentation project, click on this link. 

Now one more thing - I'm very sorry about this! I overlooked uploading last week's (11/26) board notes. Before doing so, here are the other board notes for our class on 12/3:

Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/26: 

My apologies for this!

So see you next week!

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電気通信大学 AE2Y II: 12/3 board notes・12月3日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? Here is a very short post for today - the board notes for our class on 12/3. 

See you next week!

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東京理科大学 Listening & Speaking 1b: Fall final presentation assignment & Writing & Composition 1b: Writing assignment 5・後学期末プレゼンテーション・作文5

Hello!

How are you? This is a post for both the Listening & Speaking and Writing & Composition classes. 

For the Listening & Speaking class, this is our fall semester final presentation assignment. For Writing & Composition, this will be writing assignment 5 - the third (3rd) writing assignment for the fall semester. 

Themes

For both classes, here are your choice of topics. You can choose one (1) of these: 

• A currency, or unique, non-capitalistic economic system from another country or period of history
• Key mistakes or accidents involving engineering (in any kind of engineering, such as chemical, electrical, or mechanical engineering)
• Principles (原理) of biology or biochemistry
• Explaining details and use of a chemical compound or a medicine

Deadlines (締め切り) 
For Listening & Speaking:

Your presentation day will be on December 23rd (12/23), so you have three (3) weeks to prepare. 

For Writing & Composition:
It will be on December 16th (12/16), so you have two (2) weeks to prepare. 

Guidelines 
For Listening & Speaking:

1. Prepare a summary (要約) about the topic you want to present on. The summary will be due for check on December 16th (12/16). 

As we did before with the mid-term presentations, you will evaluate your classmates' presentations in groups.

2. Be ready for me to review your progress on 12/16 and for you to practice your presentation in-class. You can practice with me and/or other groups of students.

* This is very important! You don't have to have the presentation 100% finished - but you have to have enough content so you can practice!

3. Finalize your presentation outside of class and be ready to present on December 23rd!

For Writing & Composition:
Have a rough draft ready to read aloud to your classmates next week on December 9th (12/9). I will give you time in class to work on it - but it must be finished and handed in on December 16th (12/16). 

* This is very important! I will immediately show you the final presentation assignment on 12/16 - so you need to have writing assignment 5 finished and handed in so you can start on the final writing assignment! 

Now here are the board notes for our classes on 12/2. The first set of notes are for Listening & Speaking 1b:

Now here is Writing & Composition 1b:

Good luck to all of you! See you next week!

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東京理科大学 技術英語: Final presentations・期末発表

Hello!

How are you? Here is our final presentation assignment. 

Topics & tasks

Select an area or issue of mechanical engineering or IT, and focus on a specific problem or issue and a solution to it – for example: 

• a technical problem, with a solution, in mechanical engineering or IT – for example, a classic case of a problem with a famous or noteworthy structure, or vehicle, device, component, or piece of equipment within ME or IT, and the solution to the problem with it – or –

• a socially-impactful issue, with a solution or proposal of a solution, that ME or IT made possible, or could make possible – for example, a classic case of a past social issue, difficulty, or dilemma that that was solved by mechanical engineering, perhaps in conjunction with civil or electrical engineering, or IT, perhaps with the help of precision mechanics, mechanical engineering in general, or mathematics – or perhaps a current problem that ME or IT could solve.

With your topic, develop a 5-6 minute presentation about it, including methodologies and results, and your opinions and suggestions, on implications and directions of what your topic subject is about.  

Special note:

With this last task idea, you could propose an original solution within ME or IT to a problem - but you should show a methodology, with proof and a projection of results, that you believe could work.

Guidelines

As we have done before, develop a digitally-based display (Power Point, Key Note, Google Slides, or some other possible digitally-based show) with a summary that shows some background to the area or issue with any research or investigative reports about the area or issue, plus a statement on what you will focus on in your presentation. 

In addition, you will also develop an outline for your topic showing main and supporting ideas, and points of details of the topic.

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will turn in the summaries and outlines, and do the presentations, on December 17th (12/17), so you have three (3) weeks to develop these. 

During our planning and preparation time, starting from next week (12/3), I will allow you to bring in your devices (laptops and/or tablets) and work in class, with my guidance and some supporting paper material and blogposts, to develop your summaries, outlines, and spoken presentation delivery. 

Special note:
Because we will only have one week in January 2020 for a class meeting left, on January 21st (1/21), we should aim to have the presentations completed on 12/17, before our New Year's break. But we can use 1/21 as a makeup day for any final presentations that we could not get to on 12/17. 

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of topics, and helping you to develop them.

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電気通信大学 AE2Y I: 7/9 board notes・7月9日のボードノート

Hello! 

How are you? Above are the board notes for our classes on 7/9. 

If you want to see the AE2Y I final presentation assignment post again without searching around for it, click here for it.

Here are some more notes below for all of you on summary writing, presenting,  and composition writing: 

I hope these notes can help you as you finish your presentations and compositions. 

See you next week!

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電気通信大学 ASE I: 7/9 board notes・7月9日のボードノート

Hello! 

How are you? Above are the board notes for our class today on 7/9. 

If you would like to see the ASE I final presentation assignment post again without searching around for it, click here for it.

Now here are the other notes from today: 

I hope these notes can help you to finish your presentation speaking delivery and displays. 

See you in the first round of presentations next week! 

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東京理科大学 Listening & Speaking 1a: 7/8 board notes・7月8日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? Here are the board notes for our class on 7/8. 

If you would like to see a link for the final presentation assignment without searching for it, click here. 

Now here are some more board notes for all of you: 

I hope these can help you with your preparation for your final presentation. 

See you next week!

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電気通信大学 AE2Y I: 7/2 board notes・7月2日のボードノート

Hello! 

How are you? Above are the board notes for our classes on 7/2. 

If you would like to see the AE2Y I final presentation assignment post without searching around for it, click here for it.

Here are some more notes below for all of you: 

More on outlining
While once again an outline is optional for all of you - you do not have to make one if you feel you do not need it - above is a rough schema of an outline (あらすじ). 

Now below is an example of a finished outline, with keywords and key phrases. Take a look at this and make it bigger. 

So if you want to make an outline, see how you could structure an outline about your presentation topic: 

Now here is the same example, without the notes in red.

I hope this example can help you with the structuring of your outline if you choose to make one. 

See you next week!

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電気通信大学 ASE I: 7/2 board notes・7月2日のボードノート

Hello! 

How are you? Above are the board notes for our class on 7/2. 

If you would like to see the ASE I final presentation assignment post without searching around for it, click here for it.

As you can see, here is a rough schema of an outline (あらすじ). Here are some more notes below for all of you: 

Now here is an example of a finished outline, with keywords and key phrases. Take a look at this, make it bigger, and see how you could structure an outline about your presentation topic: 

Now here is the same example, without the notes in red.

I hope this example can help you with the structuring of your outline. 

See you next week!

Images: Personal photographs and screenshots of original Word documents. All rights reserved.