Certificate Course on Academic Writing Skills in English

This writing workshop is designed to reinforce essay composition skills and introduce participants to the practice of writing for academic purposes. It will prepare students for work in high-level English courses in which research writing is a requirement. It introduces basic research writing skills including conducting research, note-taking, paraphrase, summary, direct quotation, positioning, and Modern Language Association (MLA) style citation. The course will place equal emphasis on macro-level composition skills such as essay structure, paragraph structure, coherence, unity; and micro-level skills such as sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and mechanics. With these as the foundation, it also provides intensive objective analysis and evaluation of issues to strengthen personal judgment.