This course will focus on three specific areas: critical reading, academic research writing, and writing for a multidisciplinary audience. This course will train students to analyze, create, and support arguments in their academic writing, while also communicating their research (in both writing and speaking) to a multidisciplinary audience.

Many students and researchers struggle to write and communicate their research to people outside of their field, however cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration is becoming ever more popular and productive in research as a whole. To prepare students for cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary communication, emphasis will be placed on communicating research, through both writing and speaking, in a way to facilitate understanding and communication. This will involve conducting audience/reader analysis, using more active sentence constructions, incorporating syntactic and semantic clarity, utilizing progression and transitions strategies, as well as making overall language and jargon considerations.

In this course, students will learn to develop their critical reading skills in order to present and support research arguments in their writing. Critical reading will involve such things as being able to evaluate academic arguments for clarity and logic, while also identifying any shortcomings an argument might have.

This course will focus on academic writing, specifically article writing. The moves and steps most common in published articles will be examined, and students will incorporate these move and steps into their own academic writing for this class. In addition to this, writing style and mechanics, such as clarity, style, and flow, will also be incorporated into research writing. This course will be conducted in English.