Welcome to ESL 112

Hello, class! 

Welcome Message: 

I'm so glad that you're in my section of ESL 112!  We're going to have a great semester!  This course will stretch you, challenge you, be difficult, but it will be worth it.  If you work hard in this course, commit to our team of writers, I am confident that you will improve even more in your English writing.  You will show your academic writing skills by completing a final academic research paper for this course.  Above all, I am confident that if we meet the expectations, the paper will be a remarkable success.  

Expectations: 

For the class and instructor: 

• You can expect me to give you the best instruction I can. 
• You can expect me to try to challenge each student in unique ways to help each student improve.  
• You can expect the class to be engaging.  
• You can expect the class to be hard.
• You can expect a lot of group work.
• You can expect useful feedback on your writing.  
• You can expect me to be committed to each one of my students.    
• You can expect the class to be fun.  

What is expected of you: 

• I expect you to give me the best work you can.  
• I expect you to challenge yourself to become the best writer you can be.  
• I expect you to choose to be engaged and attentive.  
• I expect you to work hard.  
• I expect you to stretch yourself in working in groups.  
• I expect you to give each other useful feedback on your peers' writing.  
• I expect you to be committed to the class--your classmates, me, and our writing.  
• I expect you to have fun and relax sometimes. 

I fully believe that together we can make this the most successful class you have ever taken and I have ever taught.  Are you with me?