Academic Writing: English As an Additional Language
Rhetoric and Communications · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall/Winter Only, Every Year
No prerequisites listed, you can take this course without prior coursework.
Description
Academic Writing teaches the essential strategies for university writing and research. This course is designed to give students whose first language is not English extensive opportunities to further develop their writing abilities, research skills, and public speaking skills. During the course, students learn to generate, evaluate, and develop ideas logically, support arguments with evidence, gather and document information from a variety of sources, use language clearly and correctly. Particularly, students have extensive opportunities to practice writing different genres of texts, and to develop public speaking skills, through a debate and a research presentation.
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and ENGL-1100 | ENGL-1101 | ENGL-1121 | ENGL-1122 | RHET-1101 | RHET-1102 | RHET-1103 | RHET-1104 | RHET-1106 | RHET-1105 | RHET-1110.
Note
Students may receive credit for only one Academic Writing course at the 1000 level for graduation. Students with standing in the former ENGL-0100(3) Fundamentals of Rhetoric must register in a 3 credit hour version of Academic Writing in order to satisfy the writing requirement. RHET-1115(3/6) may not be taken by students whose first language is English.
From the 2026-27 undergraduate calendar. Always verify details on WebAdvisor or with an academic advisor before registering.