This document provides information about an academic writing class being taught at the university level. The class has 20 students between the ages of 18-25 who are at an upper intermediate English proficiency level. They are generally good at speaking, listening and pronunciation but have some issues with writing. The general objective is for students to learn to write different types of academic paragraphs. Specific objectives include recognizing paragraph structures, understanding purposes of academic writing, and distinguishing between usage of different paragraph types. The class will focus on language forms like parts of paragraphs, comma splices, run-on sentences, and connectors. Students will practice language functions like using connectors and avoiding comma splices and run-on sentences.