ELSP Academic Writing II

3 credits · Graduate

This course concentrates on developing advanced academic writing skills. Students analyze and produce both general and discipline-specific texts and improve use of grammatical, syntactic, and rhetorical structures of academic writing. Through individualized instructor and peer feedback, students increase awareness of their individual writing strengths and weaknesses. They gain experience revising texts and using online and other academic resources, which facilitate continued, self-directed learning. The writing assignments include Problem-Solution Paper, Literature Review, and Research Paper. Course topics also include field-specific style, audience awareness, flow, and source synthesis.