English as a Second Language 290D - Academic Writing for Grad Stds

Appropriate for graduate students and upper division undergraduate students. Focuses on skills needed for writing academic papers and research projects. Provides oral presentation practice related to writing assignments. Develops awareness of authentic text types representing various academic disciplines, revealed by corpus linguistics research. Examines considerations of context, audience, purpose, reader writer relationships, and culture. Promotes precision of academic vocabulary selection, increases the accuracy and sophistication of grammatical structures related to writing, and instructs how to use rhetorical devices to improve text cohesion and coherence. Includes small group work, revising of writing, and individual conferences.

ESL 290D is for graduate international students and upper-division undergraduate international or domestic students who are non-native speakers of English. Students improve their research writing skills for academic and professional contexts such as writing abstracts, proposals, summaries, critiques, theses, dissertations, and journal articles for publication. English language instruction, including grammar and vocabulary review, is integrated throughout the writing process. Writing practice is customized to the student's own academic field. Individual conferences are provided.