Academic Writing for ESL Students
Instructor Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Beneš, Ph.D.
The objective of the course is to teach students to be able to produce persuasive and researched academic essays appropriate to the subject, occasion, and audience; texts that involve critical, academic thinking. Students will be taught to synthesize scholarly research and employ analytical reading skills to compose persuasive arguments in an academic context. Students will also collaborate in groups to improve critical thinking as well as research and writing skills. The course will show them ways to revise and edit texts; meet the standards of appropriate style and conventions of edited global English, including grammatical correctness, appropriate word choice (diction), usage, clear and concise sentence structure, and punctuation.