The course provides students with practice they need in order to incorporate new knowledge and skills.
The first part of the course introduces students into comprehensive rhetoric, conventions and style of English academic writing. It intends to develop the basic skills of paragraph organisation, sentence structure and specific strategies of English academic writing.
The second part of the course provides samples of academic writing and appropriate practice materials for students who need to write exam essays, abstracts, summaries, reports etc. in English.
The aim of the course – to enable students to write better for academic purposes — is achieved through applying a process-genre approach to writing, using authentic source texts, and a step-by-step method of teaching academic writing. All the classes in the course are conducted in the form of student-centred collaborative writing workshops to allow maximum time for writing, to foster students' independence and to facilitate meaningful written communication.