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 objectives of this course are threefold. In the first place, it seeks to establish the relevance and importance of English writing skills for the students. It aims to show them that the ability to write in English can be advantageous to them in a wide variety of contexts, including their personal, professional, and academic lives. In addition, the course is designed to develop the students' skills as writers, giving them an understanding of how written texts are structured and organized in English, and how these texts vary depending on the writer's purpose and intended audience. Finally, the course aims to enhance the students' language and vocabulary skills and their ability to express their ideas with an increased level of complexity and appropriacy.

Students are still expected to play an active role in the class and to cooperate with both the instructor and each other. Attendance and punctuality are also expected. In terms of workload, students are expected to prepare for each class by doing assigned readings, homework, and assignments on time. Most importantly, assignments must be a student's own work. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own. One instance of plagiarism will result in the loss of a full letter grade for the student. Two instances will result in the student failing the class. Plagiarism will be discussed in more detail at the beginning of semester. However, if any student is unsure of what plagiarism is or how to avoid it, he/she should not hesitate to consult the instructor. Students will also be required to keep a writing folder consisting of all assignments, handouts, and assessments, which will serve as a portfolio of each student's work during the semester

Final Exam - This will be a 50-minute in-class writing where students can choose between producing one of several genres of writing studied during the semester Assignments - Assignments are take-home writing assignments. The majority of these will not be graded. Marks will be awarded for complete and punctual submissions. Marks will be lost for non-submission or late submissions Revisions - All assignments will be returned to students with the instructor's feedback. However, three of the assignments will be revised in response to this feedback, and these will be graded Writing Folder - This is a digitial file containing a record of each student's work throughout the semester. It should contain all assignments, handouts, and other resources used during the semester

Students should feel reasonably comfortable in sentence-level written grammar and syntax. Assignments are to be submitted on the 교수학습지원시스템 and should be written using Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365 is freely available to Keimyung students through the university homepage). Finally, each student should make sure to keep copies of all assignments and materials in a dedicated digital file (the writing folder)

Students will become more skilled and confident in expressing themselves in written English in a variety of situations, whether these be personal, professional, or academic contexts. They will also gain an appreciation of the necessity to vary how they structure their ideas, their language use, and their register depending on the specific purpose and audience for which they are writing. In addition, students will enhance their understanding of English written grammar and cohesive devices and become more critical appraisers of written texts