Spring 2027

Academic Writing II

Academic Writing II covers academic writing, critical reading, argumentation, documentation, and research paper organization, alongside oral communication skills for class participation and presentations.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Dzhambul Akkaziev

Dzhambul Akkaziev was described as a tough grader who required significant reading, and students found the ESL coursework itself to be tedious.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Practice writing through assignments that ask you to plan, draft, revise and edit your essays over time.

  • Produce three substantial essays that you can be proud of: clear, organized, sophisticated, well-researched, and polished.

  • Develop your abilities as a critical reader and writer.

  • Understand the demands of academic research at UW-Madison, which means learning about our libraries and the print and electronic sources there and learning to develop good questions, find relevant sources, evaluate those sources and integrate them thoughtfully, responsibly, and ethically in your own writing.

  • Develop your public speaking abilities by giving you opportunities to speak in class, both informally and formally.

  • Increase your self-awareness about the English language and the culturally-bound conventions of American academic writing.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

ESL 117 or placement into ESL 118

  • take one
ESL 118 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANGELA ALEXANDER is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DZHAMBUL AKKAZIEV is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HOSSEIN PANAHI is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JANE KOENIG is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KAREN BEST is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KRISTIN DALBY is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LUCY MOORE is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Fall 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARY WANG is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PARTHY SCHACHTER is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SHAUNA CROWTHER is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TERRY NUCKOLLS is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 005Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 007Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 008Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 010Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 011Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 012Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 006Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 009Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 013Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 014Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 015Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 016Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 017Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 018Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 019Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 020Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 021Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 022Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 023Classroom Instruction0 / 150

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Mary Wang

Students found Mary Wang to be a supportive lecturer who genuinely cares about student success and provides valuable feedback on assignments.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 89.0% A/AB (n=290 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=144 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=225 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Dzhambul Akkaziev

Dzhambul Akkaziev was described as a tough grader who required significant reading, and students found the ESL coursework itself to be tedious.

Past student reviews · Shauna Crowther

Shauna Crowther’s class was criticized for offering no positive feedback and forcing students to figure everything out on their own.

Topics

  • Academic writing, critical reading, and argumentation
  • Documentation and style/organization of research papers
  • Oral communication, class participation, and presentations
  • Conventions of American academic writing and English language awareness

Skills

  • Plan, draft, revise, and edit essays
  • Conduct academic research, evaluate sources, and integrate them ethically into writing
  • Deliver informal and formal public speaking
  • Apply culturally-bound conventions of American academic writing

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

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Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.10 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

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letter grades

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Typical course in this group: letter grades.

About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ESL 118 · Spring 2027

Academic Writing II

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

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Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

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Model & dataset provenance 
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