1. Academic Writing 2 2014-2015 Semester 2

2. What Will We Be Doing? Short Story Writing

3. Why Short Story Writing? It’s fun It requires a systematic, disciplined and methodical approach Gives you a chance to express human emotion and interaction in English Another way to improve your English writing skill

4. How Will We Organize? Go to gxunanning.com/ss_docs. Start by downloading: 1.Writing_Year_2_Schedule_spring_2015_s2.doc 2.short_story_writing_outline1.doc These are our basic roadmap documents for the term. You should have these documents with you every time you come to writing class.

5. Will We Have A Term Project? Of course.

6. When Is It Due? The week of June 29, 2015

7. How Many Words? 1500 to 2000

8. Must We Be In Groups? I strongly recommend you organize into pairs

9. How Much Homework Will We Have? You will have a variety of in-class and homework assignments, each of which is designed to reinforce an important concept.

10. How The Project We Be Assessed? The project will be assessed using IELTS marking rubrics – 1.task response 2.coherence and cohesion 3.lexical resource 4.grammatical range and accuracy 5.other factors specific to the discipline of short story writing.