Fully Online

This course is conducted in the style of a writer's workshop. Students will have the chance to write a series of essays, and to receive essential feedback on how to improve their writing. Students will write a lot in English, and speak a lot in English, and read a lot of English each week. This class requires a lot of homework.  Students compose a number of original essays in the course of a semester.  We will also look at a number of published short stories as models of good writing.

Students in this workshop will become proficient in writing in English in a  personal narrative style. Each semester writing topics vary, but in the past students have written restaurant reviews, advertising analysis, as well as engaging personal narratives about family life and traveling abroad. Students learn guidelines for essay writing, which meet standards for publishing as outlined by the Modern Language Association. Students will also learn how to talk about writing, as they analyze and discuss the writing of others in the class.

Weighted Criteria: Attendance and Participation, : 40%
Writing Prompts/ Reading Quizzes / Formal Essays: 60%

Please attend class with a positive attitude, an engaged sense of humor, and a willingness to help others in the writing process. This clas is not about academic research writing.

The reading homework for this class (modern short stories) is quite heavy; and the demands of writing formal essays based on the Modern Language Association guidelines, make this class difficult if you are not a true level C student. 

Class size is limited to 20 students. Only level C students will be allowed to take this class. This class meets online every week.