Course general Description: This course introduces students to the practice of writing for academic purposes. A major focus of the course will be the language used in different levels of academic discourse. It introduces basic research writing skills including notetaking, paraphrasing, summary, direct quotation, positioning, and citation. The course will give special consideration to composition skills such as paragraph structure, essay structure, coherence, and the common features of academic texts (style, conventions, and phraseological patterns).