CAEX 6066 - Graduate Writing II: Intermediate Composition Skills

(0 sem. cr.)
This 6-week course primes graduate students not only to understand a scholarly text but to critically read and form an argument based on it. Topics covered include paraphrasing, APA citation, analysis, academic paragraphs, and revising and editing. Students participate in a robust writing community where they practice writing in discussion forums, keep a feedback journal, and apply their learning to papers for their discipline-specific courses. Through these activities, students should begin to see their place in the scholarly conversation. This course is complementary to CAEX 6055/6056 - Graduate Writing I: Basic Composition Skills, and enhances the skills covered in CAEX 6050. Students in this course are expected to have a familiarity with the skills covered in CAEX 6055/6056 - Graduate Writing I: Basic Composition Skills.

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