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WCOM 642 Cornerstones of Academic Writing. (1 credit)

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Offered by: McGill Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)

Administered by: Graduate Studies

Overview

WCOM : Key strategies for scholarly communication across disciplines: reading scholarly texts for structure; applying these structures in writing assignments. Four cornerstones of academic writing: audience, purpose, organization, and style. Identifying and targeting audiences, clarifying the purposes served by different writing projects, organizing ideas, and developing mastery of rhetorical and stylistic conventions.

Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Summer 2024

Instructors: Towers, Mary; Hung, Yvonne (Fall) Towers, Mary; Hung, Yvonne (Winter) Cooper, Richard; Hung, Yvonne (Summer)

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEAP 642. Only open to graduate students.

  • Due to the condensed nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply.

  • Grading in this course is pass/fail.

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