LANG 3060-Advanced Academic Writing

LANG 3060 - Advanced Academic Writing

Overview

LANG 3060 equips business students to confidently tackle advanced academic writing for research projects and adapt academic texts for public audiences to engage and persuade.

Highlights

  • Explore common and discipline-specific conventions to effectively adapt your academic writing style.

  • Learn advanced synthesis, citation strategies and rhetorical techniques to critically position your ideas and stance.

  • Use Gen AI tools and chatbots to support research and writing with academic integrity.

 

Assessments

  • A critical analysis of research writing in your discipline

  • A research report from a small-scale research project

  • Repurposing research to engage through infographics

  • Review peers’ writing and evaluate peers’ contributions to teamwork

 

Target Students

  • ​​Ideal for undergraduate students planning to pursue or currently engaged in research work or who simply want to develop in advanced academic writing skills

  • Prerequisite(s): LANG 1003, 1403, 1404, 1406, 1407, 1408, or 1409

  • Exclusion: LANG 2065

Learning Experience

Transferrable skills

  • Use Gen AI tools to assist research.

  • Adapt research writing to your discipline’s conventions.

  • Strengthen arguments with advanced synthesis, citation, and rhetorical strategies.

  • Communicate research to the public using infographics.

Syllabus

Download the complete course syllabus for detailed information about course objectives, schedule, and policies.

Download Syllabus