BA
English
Academic Writing
6 credits
2nd year of study
Spring semester
This course is designed to prepare students for writing academic papers. Our focus will include active reading and developing specific strategies for identifying and understanding the methods used by writers to achieve certain effects and objectives that rest on the demands and conventions of scholarly writing. Students will gradually learn to use these strategies and devices for their own writing. In this course the students will write two essays and several short papers, as well as conduct significant peer reviewing.