About the Course

This course is designed to enhance the capacity of graduate students from all disciplines to write for academic purposes. It discusses key genres of academic writing, common rhetorical moves associated with each genre, essential skills needed to write these genres, and linguistic resources and strategies that are functional and effective for performing these moves and skills. A key focus of the course is on exploring how language can be used, across genres and disciplines, as a creative/powerful resource for presenting information, organizing text, engineering discursive flow, improving clarity, sharpening focus, infusing points of view, developing argument, incorporating other people’s ideas/voices, and engaging readers. The course also provides tips for, as well as an insider’s perspective on, building a successful career in academic writing and scholarly publishing.