2026-Summer Intermediate Writing (GEDU131-01) The course syllabus

1.Course Information

Course No. GEDU131 Section 01 Credit 2.00
Category Gen required Course Type prerequisites
Postechian Core Competence
Hours MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI / 10:00 ~ 11:50 / Hogil Kim Bldg[311]Lecture Room Grading Scale S/U

2. Instructor Information

Close Raymond Franklin Name Close Raymond Franklin Department Div. of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email address close@postech.ac.kr Homepage
Office Office Phone 279-2727
Office Hours

3. Course Objectives

Intermediate writing is a skill-building writing class that focuses on advancing past the writing practice that students gain from undergraduate courses. This class is a student-centered class, and focuses on teaching students to recognize and correct their own common errors by incorporating student-teacher conferences after each major assignment. Students will continue to focus on improving on the essay types they practiced in freshman classes, but will also emphasize sentence-level perfection, including a strong focus on clauses and phrases. Clause and phrase practice will be reinforced through various classroom activities, so attendance is crucial. This class provides opportunities to better understand audience and tone, and focuses on learning to revise well and recognize personal errors.

This class is planned to be conducted face to face, not online. However, that may change if the Covid situation requires it.

4. Prerequisites & require

Completed Level 3 of the English Certificate Program

5. Grading

Midterm Exam Final Exam Attendance Assignment Project Presentation/Discussion Laboratory/Practice Quiz Others Total
20 20 40 10 10 100
비고
Five writing assignments 40%
Two major essays 40%
Daily Exercises 10%
Seven Peer Editing 10%

** Summer/Winter Semesters 3 classes missed is an automatic U grade.

6. Course Materials

Title Author Publisher Publication
Year/Edition
ISBN

7. Course References

Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, Longman Academic Writing Series 4: Paragraphs to Essays, Fifth Edition, (Pearson Education, 2014, 2006)

8. Course Plan

Week One: Review of Basic Skills, Writing Assignment (WA) 1
Week Two: Repetition, WA2 & 3
Week Three: Conferences, MIdterm Essay
Week Four: WA 4 & 5
Week Five: Conferences, Final Essay

9. Course Operation

Student-centered learning, project-based learning, co-operative learning

10. How to Teach & Remark

Essays Covered (include but are not limited to):
Description Essay
Logical Division Essay
Process Essay
Cause/Effect Essay
Comparison/Contrast Essay
Argumentative Essay

Sentence-Level Issues Covered (include but are not limited to):
Parallelism
Adverb clauses/Coordinating clauses
Adjective clauses
Participial phrases
Noun clauses

11. Supports for Students with a Disability

- Taking Course: interpreting services (for hearing impairment), Mobility and preferential seating assistances (for developmental disability), Note taking(for all kinds of disabilities) and etc.

- Taking Exam: Extended exam period (for all kinds of disabilities, if needed), Magnified exam papers (for sight disability), and etc.

- Please contact Center for Students with Disabilities (279-2434) for additional assistance