Andrew Komasinski - Class Information - Academic Writing

Stephanie Komashin and I taught sections of Academic Writing at the same time based on a flipped-class format. As in the previous version, the focus was on the paper-writing process with the addition of a new tool to help students get feedback as they develop their thesis, find objections, and support their thesis by arguing against these objections.

Stephanie Komashin and I taught sections of Academic Writing at the same time based on a flipped-class format. In this class, students learned the paper-writing process with a focus on developing a thesis as an argumentative claim, supporting it through underlying claims, and then properly citing sources.

This was a special section of writing entitled Writing for TOEFL/IELTS for students in the Global Education Leadership Program at Hokkaido University of Education. It was designed to give students the academic writing skills they would need in order to do well on tests to study abroad and then successfully complete assignments while abroad.

This was a special section of writing entitled Writing for TOEFL/IELTS for students in the Global Education Leadership Program at Hokkaido University of Education. It was designed to give students the academic writing skills they would need in order to do well on tests to study abroad and then successfully complete assignments while abroad.

Stephanie Komashin and I taught sections of Academic Writing at the same time. In this version, we were still developing the content for what became our flipped course. In this course, we looked at how to properly write a paper using an eight step process that emphasizes an argumentative thesis, using objections to formulate the structure of the paper, and good citation practices.

In this class, I taught academic writing to non-native speakers. Based on the previous semester, I focused on common sentence types used in academic writing (comparing, arguing, concluding, contrasting). I further looked at various formats of writing by including a free-writing component based on "National November Writing Month" (Nanowrimo).

In this class, I taught students the basics of academic writing, culminating in a short paper. This was a required course for students getting English teaching licenses.