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