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.

Due to the continuing Covid-19 situation, this course will be taught on the Zoom platform. Previous experience shows that this works quite well for a writing course such as GEDU131.

Completed Level 3 of the English Certificate Program

Five writing assignments 40%
Two major essays 40%
Daily Exercises 10%
Seven Peer Editing 10%

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

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

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

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