This one-semester course aims at enhancing the research writing skills of the research postgraduates in the Interdisciplinary Programs Office to help them meet the specific demands of their academic work. It particularly focuses on developing students' abilities in writing a wide spectrum of research genres, including proposal abstracts, papers and theses. Students who fail to fulfill the spoken English language requirement of the University are advised to take LANG 5000 before enrolling for this course (for students admitted in 2009/10 and onward).