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Apr 24, 2024
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ELIP 5120 - Graduate Reading and Writing
Designed to help international graduate students work toward their goal of becoming independent and skilled readers and writers in their disciplines. Course writing assignments focus on their disciplines and include summaries, response papers, and essays. The course also addresses plagiarism and citation of sources, ways to develop a more academic vocabulary, and grammar topics such as verbs, articles, and sentence control. Reading skills are strengthened using texts from students’ academic courses. Whenever possible, students work on assignments they have for discipline-related courses, and individualized attention is given.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will analyze source texts for main arguments, author stance, and supporting details.
- Students will critique and compare source texts in order to effectively use them in their own writing.
- Students will effectively organize their academic writing, specifically, summaries, response papers, and essays.
- Students will effectively paraphrase, summarize, and use direct quotations according to a citation style guide.
- Students will employ self-editing skills in order to improve in areas of grammatical weakness.
- Students will use academic vocabulary, phrasing, and style.
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