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 representative of particular disciplines, as well as considerations of genre conventions, audience, purpose, and context. Promotes precision of academic vocabulary selection, increases the sophistication and accuracy of grammatical structures related to writing, and the use of rhetorical devices to improve cohesion and coherence. Includes small group work, revising of writing, and individual conferences.
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