This course helps strengthen the writing skills of international undergraduate students through critical reading and writing of text-types such as summary, critique, and argument. The course focuses on:
- organization, style, and accuracy of academic writing;
- revising one's own writing;
- providing feedback on peer writing; and
- using, integrating, and documenting academic sources in one's writing.
Activities include individual and small-group writing in addition to whole-class workshops of individual students' essays.