The main purpose of this essay is to analyze difference of the college-level engineering writing between the US and Korea, especially in terms of textbook and curriculum. I specifically compared curriculum between University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and YonSei University. Moreover, I used [Key For Writers] (Ann Raimes, Boston: Houghton Miffin, 2004, 4th Edition), [University Writing] (Jung Hee Mo, Sam In, 2009), and [Science Writing](Shin Hyung Gi, Science books, 2006) to analyze college writing textbooks. Engineering students in UIUC required taking at least two composition courses to graduate, which are Composition I and Advanced Composition. Each class provide for approximately 20 students. The class deliver lecture along with discussion, presentation, assignment, and feedback. [Keys for Writers] have two parts. First one is Writing Process/Working with Source which suggests strategies to construct outline of the writing and to find useful information. Another part is Sentence-Level Issues which explains how to write persuasive and proper sentences. On the other hands, Yonsei University offers ‘Writing’ as a required general education course to freshman and ‘Science Writing’ as an elective course to higher grade. Each ‘Writing’ class is limited to 25 students. The class deliver lecture along with group activity, group presentation, writing training and practice, mutual correction, and review. The number of students in a class and curriculum are little different in essence compared with UIUC. A required textbook, ‘University Writing’ (Jung Hee Mo, Sam In, 2009) have three parts which are requisites for good writing, understanding about writing process, and strategies to academic writing. Even though there is no great difference between the two universities in textbook and curriculum, textbook used in UIUC consists of more practical and the manner of lecturing in UIUC are more diverse and compound. Especially, UIUC students are able to choose advanced course related to their major freely after taking basic course. However, Yonsei University offers students only ‘Science Writing’ which gives undue value to science.
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