Foundations of Academic and Professional Writing (ELS)

3-0-9 units · Graduate

For high-intermediate bilingual students who wish or need to improve accuracy, structure, style, and word choice in their academic and professional writing. Through short weekly writing assignments such as problem-solution texts, process descriptions, and data commentaries, students practice accurate grammar and punctuation, effective sentence and paragraph structure, and appropriate word choice, with extensive revisions. Discusses the use of generative AI in writing and learning. Students are encouraged to use their own research and other coursework for writing assignments. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor. Undergraduates by placement only. No listeners. Limited to 18.