Academic Writing Workshop 1

EDGE Code
EDGE IB
Term
Spring
Class Time
Tues Period 2 & Thurs Period 3
Instructor
O'Neill
Description
This course teaches students the fundamental elements of academic writing. It begins by guiding students how to use information from library resources to support an argument, without plagiarizing or misusing the sources information. It then teaches student how to create the structured paragraphs that are common to academic writing and the complex sentences that are used to express complex academic ideas. This class is recommended for students who want to improve their formal writing. The skills learned in this course can be used for academic and business writing
Schedule
  1. Course Introduction: What is Academic Writing
  2. Writing from sources.
  3. Citing sources.
  4. Avoiding plagiarism.
  5. Summarizing and paraphrasing
  6. The paragraph: Making claims
  7. Logical flow
  8. Supporting claims
  9. Linking paragraphs
  10. Building sentences: punctuation
  11. Building sentences: clauses
  12. Explaining cause and effect
  13. Hedging claims
  14. Drafting & editing
Homework
The EDGE Self-Access Center will be available to help you with the writing of your paper. Someone from your group will be expected to attend.
Materials
Provided by instructor
Grading
Based on completion of three short writing assignments throughout the course:
  • Using sources assignment           30%
  • Paragraphing assignment            30%
  • Building sentences assignment   30%
  • EDGE Self-Access Attendance:    10%