Overview
CESL : Key strategies for graduate students across disciplines whose first language is not English: reading scholarly texts for structure; learning to apply these structures in writing assignments. Four cornerstones of academic writing: audience, purpose, organization, and style. Identifying and targeting audiences, clarifying the purposes served by different writing projects, organizing ideas, and developing mastery of rhetorical and stylistic conventions. Audio feedback and multiple drafts.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Summer 2016
Instructors: Cooper, Richard; Samuel, Carolyn; Lallier, Renee (Fall) Leblanc, Beverley; Samuel, Carolyn; Besanger, Kendra; Cooper, Richard (Winter) Cooper, Richard; Samuel, Carolyn; Hung, Yvonne (Summer)
Restriction (s):Open only to graduate students in degree programs for whom English is a second language.
Intended for non-native speakers of English.
This course cannot be counted towards course requirements of any graduate program.
13.5 contact hours
**Due to the condensed nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
Grading in this course is pass/fail.