Writing for Academic Purposes: Applications (WAP II) For students in the English Department Course leader: Fran Cook Course Start Dates: WAP A Feb 25th, WAP B Feb 26th Prerequisite: Students must have passed WAP I – Foundations Introduction This course is for students majoring in English. The overall goal is to help you produce better assignments for the English Department. This requires: - understanding of the writing process and of academic assignments as writing tasks - improved ability to evaluate your own writing according to relevant criteria - regular practice: writing and rewriting General learning objectives for formal writing in English for WAP I and II. Typically up to now students will have written largely intuitively. The course aims to transform this approach by adding an analytical component. This allows you to become more versatile and knowing in your writing. Over the two semesters you write regularly in English and by the end of this time you will have improved significantly in a number of important ways: - Fluency and speed in initial drafting of texts - Ability to rewrite drafts to improve text structure and communicative impact - Ability to write in formal style, excluding informal language - Ability to write less personally, and with greater awareness of your audience - Ability to write idiomatically, using structures easily understood by native speaker users of English. This means recognizing and excluding non-native features. |