Academic Writing Course is based on Writing
1, Writing 2, and Writing 3 Courses
as well as courses on English structures
and vocabulary. Assuming that Writing 1 focuses on word choice and
sentence development, Writing 2 on
paragraph development, and Writing 3 on
writing as a discourse, Academic Writing,
therefore, focuses on issues related to
academic writing itself, that is, a
construction of a writer’s ideas on a topic with good organization, word
choice, sentence structures, paragraph structures, mechanics, including references
in general, paraphrasing and quoting other’s ideas in particular. In other words, these are issues to be
discussed in this course, yet such discussion will be based on a student’s own
academic writing that he/she is supposed to produce along this semester. This is why this course will require students
to talk a lot about their own academic articles, to read a lot related to their
topics, and to write as well as to publish actively what they write. In that sense, some teaching materials will be
implicitly introduced, whereas others are explicitly taught.