Improving Academic Essay Writing

Improving Research and Writing

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

Examples of students' work

Interpretations of the research-writing process	Note-taking on people and issues	Developing note-taking on people and issues
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

Learning activities and cycles

Talking about & reviewing academic essay writing	4 drafts of a composition for discussion	Using online writing resources
MLA citation guidelines	Self-study plan and review	Writer-reader response form

Approaches to teaching this course

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

Summaries of all the course-specific and cross-course discussions, at the 2005 Retreat, 2006 Retreat, and 2007 Retreat