UW International and English Language Programs - English for Academic Writing

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English for Academic Writing
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"I would like to thank you for instructing me very clearly and kindly. I have learned much more than what I expected. This course took me about ten hours to study per week, which was pretty tough work for me, so all the more I feel happy that I could finish it with your great help and encouragement."

- A post-doctoral fellow studying in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

Course Details

The purpose of this class is to help you improve your ability to recognize and use the basic rhetorical structures commonly found in academic writing across disciplines.

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Cost

Course Fees	$690
(subject to change)
Nonrefundable registration fee	$35

Total	$725

Course Introduction

The course focuses on the short answer and short essay type of writing typically required on in-class exams. Throughout the course, you are taught to recognize appropriate grammatical structures, organizational patterns, rhetorical phrases, and academic style and to correctly apply them to their writing.

The types of sources about which you may write are diverse, but emphasis is placed on your' ability to produce well-formed, accurate, and comprehensible written responses that meet the standards and conventions of academic style. Thus, you will need to know how to quote, paraphrase, cite, and avoid plagiarism, as well as be able to demonstrate their ability to analyze and synthesize information from two or more sources.