Students learn the skills of gathering and organising ideas, planning, drafting, revising and rewriting texts. This means plenty of reading and above all writing (mostly as homework), but also a lot of planning, discussion and peer evaluation in class. There will also be error correction and remedial language work as required. A wide a variety of writing genres are covered. Students are also asked to keep a journal, which I read at mid-term and at the end of the semester. This course involved a lot of work out of class, and students unable to carry out all the writing assignments required risk failing the course.