Scientific Writing Syllabus

Scientific Writing is designed to help you develop your academic and professional writing skills and strategies in English with the emphasis on critical reading response and proceedings paper writing. The course guides you through all stages of the writing process from planning using brainstorming including freewriting, mind mapping, listing and outlining; drafting and revising; to proofreading and providing/receiving feedback through peer review. In this course you will also practice academic writing skills which include summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, organizing your ideas, doing basic library research, supporting your claims with good forms of evidence, and preparing citations. Although the primary aim of this course involves helping you build your proficiency and confidence as a writer of English, we will also devote time and effort to improving your reading and critical reasoning skills to support your research and writing activities