Postechian Core Capabilities: Global Citizen Capability (70%), Creative Convergence Capability (30%)

Intermediate Writing is a skill-building writing class that focuses on the writings practiced and developed during previous undergraduate courses. This class is a student-centered class and emphasizes instructing students to recognize and correct their own common errors by incorporating student-centered peer-editing conferences during each major writing assignment. Students will continue to concentrate on improving on the different essay types they practiced during their freshman core English classes. Additionally, students will work to enhance sentence-level accuracy to include correct word choices/vernacular, appropriate sentence structure, and the use of effective transition signals. This class provides opportunities for understanding the needs of the audience and the correct academic tone in addition to developing independent skills in self-editing and peer editing.

Students must have completed Level-3 of the English Program

Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory System: To receive a grade of satisfactory (S) you must obtain an average of 90% or higher for the duration of the class and submit all assignments on the date they are due.

Plagiarism Policy:
Plagiarism is stealing and will not be tolerated. The first time an incident of plagiarism occurs, the offending student(s) will receive a zero (0) for the assignment. The second time an incident of plagiarism occurs by the same student(s) an Unsatisfactory grade (U) will be assigned to the student for the course.

Late Work Policy:
Assignments will not be accepted late. An absence is not an excuse for late work: e-mail me if you must be absent when an assignment is due.

Attendance Policy:
Due to the participatory nature of any language course, 100% attendance is required. Only in specific cases (family tragedy, hospital stay, and official university commitments) will an excused absence be granted. As mentioned above, assignments will not be accepted late, unless you have e-mailed me and have my approval for turning in your assignment past the scheduled due date. Each unexcused absence will be a loss of 3 % from your final grade. A student with 4 unexcused absences will receive an Unsatisfactory (U). Tardiness is unacceptable. If you are less than 10 minutes late for class 1% will be deducted from your final grade. If you are late 10 minutes or more, you will be marked absent and lose 3 % of your final grade. Four (10-minute) cases of tardiness will result in you receiving an Unsatisfactory (U) for the course.

Two Essays (Comparison/Contrast & Cause/Effect) - 20%
One Short Research Paper (Argumentative) - 20%
Final Research Paper (Student Choice: Comparison/Contrast, Cause/Effect, or Argumentative) - 25%
Peer Editing - 15%
Homework Assignments - 10%
Participation - 10%

Alan Meyers, Longman Academic Writing Series 5: Essays to Research Papers, Pearson Education Inc., 2014

Students may refer to the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) at https://owl.purdue.edu/ as a supplement to the writing process.

Week #1: Course Introduction - Comparison/Contrast Essay - Selecting a Topic & Constructing Thesis Statements & Topic Sentences (Assignment)
Week #2: Comparison/Contrast Essay - Planning the Paragraph Using Controlling Ideas & Developing Supporting Sentences
Week #3: Comparison/Contrast Essay - Learning to Paraphrase, Writing Concluding Sentences, & Body Paragraphs
Week #4: Comparison/Contrast Essay - Writing the Conclusion and Introduction (Short Essay #1)
Week #5: Cause/Effect Essay - Topic, Thesis, Topic Sentences, Body Paragraphs - 1st Draft (Assignment)
Week #6: Cause/Effect Essay - Introduction w/Thesis, Body, Conclusion - Final Draft (Short Essay #2)
Week #7: Argumentative Research Paper (Short Research Paper) Selecting a Topic & Writing Thesis & Topic Sentences (Assignment)
Week #8: Conferences
Week #9: APA Writing Style & Synthesizing Research into the Writing Process, Research for Argumentative Research Paper
Week #10: Argumentative Research Paper - Thesis, Body w/In-text Citations: Rebuttal and Argument, & References
Week #11: Argumentative Research Paper - Introduction w/Thesis, Body w/In-text Citations: Rebuttal and Argument, & References (Short Research Paper)
Week #12: Final Research Paper - Selecting the type of Paper (Comparison/Contrast, Cause/Effect, or Argumentative), Selecting a Topic, and Writing a Thesis (Assignment)
Week #13: In-depth research for the Final Research Paper & Conferences, and 1st Draft Construction Process
Week #14: Final Research Paper - 1st Draft: Thesis, Body w/In-text Citations, References (Assignment), and Peer Editing (Assignment)
Week #15: Final Research Paper - Final Draft: Introduction w/Thesis, Body w/In-text Citations, Conclusion, References, and Peer Editing (Assignment)
Week 16: Conferences

Both the Midterm Exam & Final Exam will be announced through the POVIS system.

Lectures, Step-by-Step Guided Instruction, Independent Practice, and Peer Editing Feedback are meant for improving the writing process.

Turnitin: www.turnitin.com – writing assignments will be submitted to Turnitin.
**Please enroll yourself with the English version of your name.

Class ID: TBA
Enrollment Key: TBA

iGradePlus Online Gradebook
In your POVIS account, you will receive an e-mail invitation from iGradePlus Online Gradebook. The e-mail will provide a link to your private account for this class. I will update your account on a weekly basis, and you will have full access to your account 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The account provided to you is your private account, so please safeguard your account and password information.

Writing is a process. Practice and feedback are the means for understanding and improving the writing process.

Teacher-Led & Peer Editing Feedback