Graduate Academic Writing Course

This course is designed for advanced level graduate students. The aim of this course is to help students to become more competent, confident and critical members of their chosen academic discourse communities by developing their abilities to successfully write at an acceptable scholarly level. The goal of this course is to assist students in developing the writing skills necessary to meet a range of anticipated writing tasks that they will encounter during their academic career. Students will learn how to utilise key features of discourse, for example audience and purpose, organization and structure, information flow, vocabulary, grammar, etc. to analyse research articles and to enhance their own writing. Students will be introduced to the recommended Style Guide for the discipline as one of the primary resources for the course.