The course contains written assignments. The kind of writing assignments may vary according to the nature of the discipline and the particular purposes of the course. No style of writing is excluded in principle. Various purposes might be served by assignments which would require formal, informal, creative, expressive, transactional, descriptive, analytic or synthetic writing.
Teachers clearly communicate their expectations about writing to the students.
In most cases, this will involve spending some class time addressing the art of writing. No one method of evaluating and responding to papers is mandated, however. Writing assignments play a role in determining the students' grades. It is assumed that the role of written work in determining students' grades will vary from course to course and from one discipline to another. Assignments serve the particular purposes of the course.