AP/JP2000 6.0 Advanced Modern Standard Japanese

Japanese Studies Program at York University

Instructions for writing assignments

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Policy:
The purpose of writing practice is to improve your writing on your own, not to hand in 'perfect' assignments.

Thus, the following are prohibited.
* Use of ChatGPT and similar AI-based programs including apps for translation
* Asking other people to write or proof-read your assignments
* Copying someone else's work and quoting without indicating sources

Format:

Please use the type-in manuscript paper genkoo-yooshi for the Japanese text (MS Word) at the following URL.

https://buna.yorku.ca/japanese/genko/type_yoko_genkou.docx

Length: one page (strictly observed)

• How to use genkoo-yooshi
• Type in horizontally.
• Use Header (double-clik on the top empty space) to insert the title with the quotation marks as in 「将来の計画」.
  
• Add your name in Japanese after the title as in エリザベス・ウォン, and close Header.
  
• Leave one box empty at the beginning of each paragraph.
• Use one box for 。、ゃ・ゅ・ょ・っ
• Do not start a line with 。or 、.

Please submit English version of each assignment using a separate MS Word document.

Style

Fall Term: Use the polite form [V-ます　N/Adj ＋です」
Winter Term: Use the plain form [V-(る）N+だ]

• Writing style
• Use casual forms.
• Do not use - desu, -masu forms
• Use - da, -datta, -dearu, -deatta, -ru, -ta, -I, -katta
• Use of renyoo-chuushi-kee 連用中止形　yomi, kaki, hanashi, ....
• Do not use honorifics unless necessary.
• Do not use colloquial structures, expressions and vocabulary.

• Format
• Please name each assignment following the instruction on eClass.
  

Feedback: colour-coded

Your writing assignments (draft version) will be returned to you with the following colour codes depending on the errors or
suggested improvement. Please rewrite the draft and submit the final version for assessment.

黄色	文字（もじ）・表記（ひょうき）	character/spelling
緑	語彙（ごい）	vocabulary
灰色	表現（ひょうげん）	expression
赤	構文（こうぶん）	structure
青	文体（ぶんたい）	style
V	挿入（そうにゅう）	insert

Rewriting

You have two weeks to rewrite the colour-coded draft upon receiving it from the instructor.

Late submission

Late submission might be allowed for special circumstances with the instructor’s discretion - illness, accident, death in the family, etc.

Late submission could be subject to penalty (5% reduction per day).

Evaluation

The following criteria are used to assess assignments.

· Content                                    10                       

· Organization                            10

· Structure                                  10

· Expression/Vocabulary            10

· Writing                                     10

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Norio Ota <nota@yorku.ca>