Academic Writing: Key to your academic success

Academic writing is an indispensable part of every university student’s life and maybe even beyond and yet, it is the most challenging task for many of the students. This course will cover what academic writing is, along with every important aspect of it. Overall, it covers all the essential details, knowledge, information of academic writing and explicitly states the ways for the students to master academic writing in order to ensure academic success.

This course is formed on a beginner to advanced level of academic writing. It starts at the very beginning of what academic writing is and works its way up to how to successfully produce a truly academic work.

This is a non-virtual course where students can pace themselves in studying the course materials.

Course formation

First module – Reading + quiz

Second module – Reading + quiz + APA exercise

Third module – Reading + quiz

Fourth module – Reading + Writing an academic paper

The themes for each module are:

Module 1: Academic writing and its structures

Module 2: Plagiarism and how to avoid it

Module 3: Essential aspects of academic writing: Critical thinking, reading, and note taking   strategies

Module 4: Stages of the writing process and implementation