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In response to the popularity of subjects integrating reading and writing, many universities are offering and operating such courses. Because of lack of materials for guiding such classes, however, there should be active relevant research and discussions. Thus, this study purposed to examine the operation of Classic Reading and Writing offered as a reading-writing integrated course at Ewha Womans’ University and to survey the students and their actual writings, expecting outcomes useful to set guidelines for reading-writing integrated classes. According to the results of the questionnaire survey, students wanted to expand their thoughts through reading classics, but the methods of reading texts and developing their writings were passive, focusing on the theme consciousness of the original texts. This suggests the need of the teacher’s guidance in interpreting classics, raising issues for expanding thoughts, etc. With regard to how to quote original texts and to add their interpretations, moreover, students were still poor as evidenced by the limited use of a few specific predicatives or failure to introduce various expressions different from their writing of academic essays, but it was encouraging that they seemed to be familiar with the conventional rules of academic essays as suggested by the adequate use of self-quoted phrases.