Academic writing is an ESP course for students who have completed their general English study. This course helps students understand the academic writing norms, experience the process of academic writing, and be familiar with the structure, logic and language of academic genres. While imparting knowledge and cultivating ability, it also pays attention to the transmission of academic values such as honesty, rigor and steadiness, aiming to cultivate students' ability and quality of academic written communication and international publication.
There are three modules in the course. The first two units are targeted to guide you to have an overview of academic writing, its genres and features. The next three units are designed to help you complete an argumentative essay by developing the academic writing skills such as defining, describing, classifying and dividing, comparing and contrasting and so on. The last three units work together to help you complete a short research writing by using sources from the databases and conducting research by your own.
Unit 1 What Is Academic Writing?
1.1 What Is Academic Writing?
1.2 Academic Writing Genres
1.3 Academic Writing Features
1.4 Avoiding Plagiarism
Quiz 1
Unit 2 Academic Writing Style
2.1 Making Writing More Formal
2.2 Making Writing More Complex
2.3 Using Cautious Language
2.4 Using Collocations
Quiz 2
Unit 3 Academic Writing Techniques (1)
3.1 Achieving Cohesion and Coherence
3.2 Defining Terms
3.3 Using Examples
3.4 Classifying and Dividing
Quiz 3
Unit 4 Academic Writing Techniques (2)
4.1 Describing Procedure
4.2 Analyzing Causes and Effects
4.3 Comparing and Contrasting
4.4 Thinking Critically
Quiz 4
Unit 5 Writing an Argumentative Essay
5.1 Structuring the argumentative essay
5.2 Writing the Introduction
5.3 Organizing the Body Paragraphs
5.4 Writing the Conclusion
Quiz 5
Unit 6 Using Sources to Support Your Ideas
6.1 Finding Sources
6.2 Evaluating Sources
6.3 Taking Notes
6.4 Integrating Sources
Quiz 6
Unit 7 Writing a Research Paper (1)
7.1 Title
7.2 Abstract
7.3 Introduction
7.4 Literature Review
Quiz 7
Unit 8 Writing a Research Paper (2)
8.1 Methodology
8.2 Results
8.3 Discussion
8.4 Conclusion
8.5 Reference
Quiz 8