academic writing for graduate students.pdf

ELIP 5120: Graduate Reading and Writing Required Textbook : ? Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills , 3rd ed., Swales & Feak, 2012, University of Michigan Press. ISBN: 978 - 0 - 472 - 03475 - 8 Reference Texts: ? Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association , 6th ed. APA, 2009. ISBN: 978 - 1 - 4338 - 0561 - 5 ? Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers , Caplan, 2012, University of Michigan Press. Course Description and Objectives: This course is designed to help international graduate students work toward their goal of ing independent and skilled readers and writers in their disciplines. Course writing assignments focus on their disciplines and include summaries, and response p aper s, and essays . The course also address es plagiarism and citation of sources , ways to develop a more academic vocabulary, and grammar topics such as verbs, articles, and sentence control. Reading skills are strengthened using texts from students' academ ic courses. Whenever possible, students work on assignments they have for discipline -related courses , and individualized attention is given . pleting ELIP 5120, all students will be able to: ? identify areas of grammatical weakness and develop self -editing skills. ? e aware of and use academic vocabulary, phrasing, and style. ? effective lyparaphrasing, summarizing, a