2024-25 Spring - LANG2065 - Research Writing

Course

Description

This course empowers students to confidently tackle complex academic writing challenges in research project writing regardless of major. Students will understand the varied needs, purposes, expectations and contexts of their writing tasks. By exploring conventions that are discipline-specific and common across disciplines, students learn to adapt their writing effectively. The course also emphasizes taking a stance and creating strong, coherent, evidence-backed arguments. With advanced synthesis, citation strategies and rhetorical techniques, students position their ideas and solve problems critically through their writing. Exposing students to technologies particularly Gen AI tools for research and customized chatbots to guide writing, this course creates writers who are adept at integrating technologies while maintaining academic integrity. Through collaboration, reflection and the writing process, the course nurtures a community of writers who value peer feedback, self-evaluation and continuous improvement. Students embarking on their final year project will find this course highly useful.
Course period1/02/2530/06/25
Course levelUG
Course formatTutorial