550.001.01 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES I

Focuses on academic writing skills including documentation styles, and combines Saturday class meetings with online assignments and one individual conference.

Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to: • Apply strategies used in the three main stages of the Writing Process. Spiral strategies include brain storming, outlining, drafting, proofreading, rewriting and editing. • Formulate an effective thesis statement • Support thesis with concrete supporting details • Avoid global errors such as fragments, run-on/splice sentences, dangling modifiers • Avoid errors in tenses and agreements • Correctly incorporate quotation, summary, and paraphrase when citing outside sources • Correctly apply required parenthetical documentation and bibliographical documentation format