Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. The Struggle of Academic Writing

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Should academic writing be easier to read? Where we are in history.

    4. Resources

    5. Creating a shared vocabulary

    6. Active Voice and Passive Voice

    7. Active and Passive voice: a moral choice?

    8. Active and Passive Voice exercises

    9. Parallelism

    10. Parallelism is everywhere

    11. Parallelism practice

    12. The four levels of writing

    13. The Writing Process

    14. Note taking and Outlining

    15. Conscious Prewriting exercise

    16. Example outline format

    17. Writing and Editing tips

    18. Editing Code

    19. Structuring the Methods Section

    20. Writing the methods section

    1. Part 2 overview

    2. The Science of Scientific Writing

    3. Information flow

    4. Information flow practice

    5. Flow in paragraphs

    6. Linking words handout

    7. Linking Words practice

    8. Dealing with numbers

    9. Writing the results section

    1. Part 3 overview

    2. Verbs and formality

    3. Formality practice

    4. Punctuation

    5. Relative Clauses

    6. Swales' Moves for Introductions

    7. Identify the moves

    8. Writing the introduction

    1. Part 4 overview

    2. Wordiness

    3. Wordiness examples

    4. Differences between similar words

    5. Easy to remove wordiness

    6. How to replace wordy expressions (reference)

    7. Verb tenses

    8. The Curse of Knowledge and Chunking

    9. Swales' moves for discussions

    10. Writing the discussion

    1. Part 5 Overview

    2. Jargon and Acronyms

    3. Jargon and Acronym examples

    4. A tale of Two Englishes

    5. American English vs British English

    6. Writing Checklist

    7. Putting it all together: practice with a text about sustainability

    8. Putting it all together: practice with a text about plants

    9. Sample cover letter

    10. Abstracts

    11. Sample abstracts, two formats

    12. Writing the abstract

    13. Course Evaluation Survey

About this course

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  • 60 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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