EWriting is a course teaching the grammar-based, basic, intermediate, and advanced principles of English composition for students who speak a foreign language and are at the threshold of a college education. Created by MDC faculty members to meet the needs of the college’s student population, it is one of many study options featured by MDC’s learning-resource server WebCT, and it is a required component of the EAP laboratories at the InterAmerican Campus. At every level, the course includes a total of 41 lessons covering level competencies. Every semester, students must complete a minimum of 15 (fifteen) lessons although it is left to every instructor’s discretion to decide the number of lessons lab students must do. The lessons include a number of multiple choice exercises, sentence and paragraph writing sections, pretests and posttests, accompanied by power-point presentations introducing the fundamentals of writing, and a number of intermediate and advanced composition skills to enable students to meet their academic goals. Among the many illustrative and user-friendly features of e-Writing is a “manage students”

component for instructors including test-resetting tools for those students who wish to obtain better scores after a first try, and, as part of every student’s account, records of every student’s progress with his/her lessons, and access to their quizzes to view and explain areas of difficulty.

Although eWriting is still a work in progress, it has already proven a valuable learning tool at the InterAmerican Campus, where it was spearheaded by lab tutors and introduced to the EAP faculty.

(Miss Yaitma Escobar A.A, 2007)