In this course, students learn English by writing together with other students from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. They can find ways to make their English writing more effective in an international context. There is much information available in the IWE course about writing English articles. For example, one can read about rhetorical categories, grammar, academic writing, business writing. The students send their article via email to their peer-students who have the same topic.
Students having the same topic are in the same group.
Each student reads the articles of the group and write one or more comments to a peer-student. In real-time computer conferences, the students discuss and criticise each others' articles. This cycle is done three times. After this, the students have a better idea about what is making their writing effective. The students are responsible for their own learning and the learning of the other students in the same group.