Content-specific Writing 3&4

3rd & 4th Year

Content-specific Writing

(formerly Advanced Academic Writing)

Course information sheets with course description, requirements, processes, goals and activities for this course

After 9/11: Current Issues and Future Challenges facing Japan	British Culture and Society
Gender in Society

Examples of students' work from activities at this level

Different Ways of Writing about Issues: examples of research narrratives and issues overviews, as alternative ways to the standard academic essay for students to engage with content

Interpretations of the research-writing process	Note-taking on social, political, legal, and global issues	Mind-mapping on social, political, legal & global issues
Different ways of learning vocabulary	Explaining vocabulary	Collocation notes and networks
Short essays on social, legal and political issues	Longer essays on social, legal and political issues	Research papers on social, legal, and political issues
Students' stories of the development of their English during a course	Students' work from all courses

Research resources - readings and links to help students do research on a range of social, political, legal, and global issues at this level

Social, political, legal, and global issues

Overview of research resources for all courses

Learning activities and cycles

MLA citation guidelines

Self-study plan and review

Approaches to teaching this course

Summary of the Academic Writing classes discussion at the 2007 Teacher Retreat