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Early development of good academic research and writing skills is critical for success at university and in your professional life.
This course aims to :
- provide you with an understanding of academic writing conventions in English; and - teach you the components and benefits of what is known as process writing.
- to assist you in developing your own "toolbox" of academic writing skills, as well as to provide you with opportunities to test these tools and reflect on your own growth as a writer.
- to promote reflection on discipline-specific conventions; while the course focuses on generic skills, you will be able to apply these generic skills to meet the specific needs of your own discipline.
Syllabus :
1. Writing in English at University: An introduction
- Introduction to academic writing
- What is academic writing?
- Interpreting the task
- The writing process and process writing
- Feedback and peer review
2. Structuring your text and conveying your argument
- Structuring an argument
- Research questions and thesis statement
- Structuring a text around the three-part essay
- Structuring information
- Structuring paragraphs
- IMRaD
3. Using sources in academic writing
- Reading strategies
- Integrating sources: positioning and stance
- Why references?
- The parts of a reference
4. The writer’s toolbox: Editing and proofreading
- The need to edit and revise one's text
- Global editing and revision
- Editing for register and tone
- Editing for style
- First person pronouns and choosing between active and passive voice
- Standard punctuation
- Spelling and typos
- Using a style sheet
