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ACADEMIC WRITING: REFINING AND REFLECTING
This workshop-style course is designed for students to develop essential skills of academic writing and academic socialization in English. It addresses a wide range of writing-related issues, including style and voice, writing discipline, drafting, preparing for deadlines, writing literature reviews, narrative development and organization, models of accountability, taming the “internal editor,” writing up empirical research, peer review, and academic writing for non-native English speakers. We will encounter and assess different genres – literature reviews, thesis writing, conference abstracts – and engage with different kinds of challenges in academic writing, including collaborative writing, disciplinary and interdisciplinary writing, and writing for public audiences.
Because English is the de facto global language of science, this course is designed to enable students to reflect on their writing and writing habits in an encouraging environment with the goal of gaining confidence while writing in English.
HOW THIS COURSE WORKS
Each week students will have some texts to review and reflect upon. We will actively discuss themes from these texts in class.
During each class we’ll engage in a series of further activities to explore writing assumptions, habits and practices.
Between classes students are encouraged to continue with these exercises, write about writing, and check in with your accountability partner(s).
In specific weeks, students will have the opportunity to receive feedback on their own writing in progress.
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