The course will consist of the following units:
1. Unit 1: An approach to academic writing (e.g., audience, purpose & strategy, organization, style, presentation, positioning)
2. Unit 2: General-specific and specific-general texts (e.g., opening with general statements, statistics, definitions)
3. Unit 3: Problem, process, and solution (e.g., problem-solution texts, procedures, processes, solutions)
4. Unit 4: Data commentary (e.g., evidence, data, organization, graphs)
5. Unit 5: Writing summaries (e.g., paraphrasing, plagiarism, documentation of sources)
6. Unit 6: Writing critiques (e.g., article critiques, book reviews, critical reading, reaction papers)
7. Unit 7: Constructing a research paper I
8. Unit 8: Constructing a research paper II
9. Unit 9: Academic Presentations (e.g., poster presentations, oral presentations)