Students will be required to write one short composition every week (usually about one A4 page, but varying between 150 words at the beginning of the semester to occasionally as long as 500 words at the end). The instructor will give brief lectures on organization, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and common English writing problems of Chinese students. The class will occasionally be divided into small groups for the students to discuss each other’s papers. All lectures and discussions will be conducted in English.