Intermediate Writing

English Language Program

Spring 2018

Instructor: XXX Room: XXX

Email: XXX Class time: XXX
Class online platform: click here Office hours: XXX

Course Goal
XXX

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
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Course Materials
 Strunk Jr, W., & White, E.B. (1999). The elements of style (4th ed.). NY: Pearson.
 Articles and short essays
 Instructional videos

Course Requirements
1. Class participation (15%)
This includes class attendance and participation (both in-class and online).

2. Weekly online discussions (20%)

Reply to writing prompts posted in the class’s Google+ community. All students are required to
respond to at least two other posts published by their classmates. All online discussions must be
submitted by Sunday, 11:59 PM.

3. Assignments (50%)
Throughout the course, each student submits the following assignments to the instructor online:
1) Bio
2) Text analysis
3) Descriptive essay
4) Comparative essay
5) Cause-effect essay
6) Classification essay
7) Opinion essay

4. Final project (15%)

Students work in groups to collaborate on a longer piece of writing as part of a class project.
Each group is responsible for producing a type of essay learned in this course, centering on an
overarching theme to be decided by the class. During the last week of class, the essays will be
compiled together as a class journal to be reviewed and published.

Grading
A+ 97-100% Rare performance.
A 94-96% Outstanding achievement.
 A- 90-93% Excellent.
B+ 87-89% Very good.
B 84-86% Good.
B- 80-83% Acceptable achievement.
C+ 77-79% Fair achievement.
C 73-76% Low performance.
C- 70-72% Very low performance.
F 69%~ Failure.

Tentative Schedule
Week Topic(s)
1 Sentence construction
Punctuation
2 Writing paragraphs
Relevance of ideas
3 Description
4 Comparison
5 Cause-effect
6 Classification
7 Opinion
8 Writing workshop
To Watch/Read Assignments Due*
Watch: Punctuation Online discussion 1
Read: EOS pp. 13-25 Assignment 1: Bio
Watch: Coherence Online discussion 2
Read: EOS pp. 26-40 Assignment 2: Text analysis
Watch: Descriptive essay Online discussion 3
Read: “My Room” Assignment 3: descriptive
essay
Watch: Comparative essay Online discussion 4
Read: “British English vs. Assignment 4: comparative
American English” essay
Watch: Cause-effect essay Online discussion 5
Read: “What Causes Low Assignment 5: cause-effect
Self-Esteem?” essay
Watch: Classification Online discussion 6
essay Assignment 6: classification
Read: “Baseball Fans” essay
Watch: Opinion essay Online discussion 7
Read: “Why Youths Assignment 7: opinion essay
Should Live Separately
from Parents”
Watch: Review Final Project

*All writing assignments are due online before Sunday, 11:59 PM