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WCOM 295. ESL: Academic Skills.

Credits: 3
Offered by: McGill Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027
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Description

The university classroom: note-taking and summary of lectures; paraphrase and summary of written and multimedia materials; oral and seminar presentations; ethical use of Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Models. Critical thinking, reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills and strategies.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 299.
  • **Due to the condensed nature of this course, the standard add/drop, and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the fourth lecture day and withdrawal with financial penalty is the fifth lecture day.
  • Although this course follows a MTWR class schedule pattern, the last day of class may be on a Friday.

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