ADVANCED ENGLISH WRITING

This course is designed for students who have experience writing in English at the paragraph-level. It will focus on guiding these students through the processes involved in creating coherent, organized, and well-supported multi-paragraph compositions. Students will learn some key academic writing skills, including a variety of patterns of organization, which they will be able to apply in a broad range of writing contexts. In addition, students will be encouraged to view writing as a collaborative and recursive process, with feedback and revision being central to the production of effective compositions.

The goals of this course are to make students more comfortable with proper writing (and speaking) in English and with interacting with a foreigner professor.

a) Be honest! No cheating. Do your own work. Sign only your name on the sign-in sheet.
b) Be polite! Turn off the sound on your cell phone. When other students are speaking at the podium, give them your full attention.
c) Do the work! Speak and write English as often and as well as you can!

Due to not enough boxes, "Attendance" is actually "Class Participation."Attendance is assumed; being absent or tardy (or leaving early without permission) results in a deduction from a student's final score. Assignments include short writing assignments to be done at home.

The students should have the textbook and bring it to every class. This class focuses on activities and lectures based on the text book. Students should also always bring paper and a writing instrument.
All students should possess a dictionary (English-to-Korean and Korean-to-English). Students should also have a grammar reference available while writing. A thesaurus is also recommended but not required. Electronic dictionaries and cellphone dictionaries are acceptable.

While this class is limited in scope, the skills learned have nearly limitless uses: Writing has been and continues to be the primary way that humans pass along knowledge. Speech is immediate but fleeting: some writing becomes eternal. Humanity has been able to record speechimmediate but fleeting: some writing becomes eternal. Humanity has been able to record speech for only about 100 years; its earliest writings have been dated to over 5,000 years ago. Currently, e-mail and cellphone messages are used for business and for love. Tweets and blog posts make and break careers. No one knows what medium will come next, but we can be sure that writing will be used.