GR 002 Academic Writing

This is an academic writing course designed for international graduate students who are not native speakers of English, but who have at least an intermediate level of language proficiency. The purpose of the course is to help students develop the skills they need to become competent writers in their chosen academic fields. Students will analyze the structure and language of a variety of academic texts and produce work using the conventions of American academic writing based on these models. Students will position themselves as participants in the scholarly conversations of their disciplines by summarizing, analyzing, critiquing, and synthesizing the work of other members of their academic and professional communities.