WCOM 635. ESL: Strategies for Academic Communication.
Credits: 1
Offered by: McGill Writing Centre (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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Description
Key language learning strategies for expressing complex ideas in academic writing across the disciplines. Corpus tools to identify collocations; strategies to build productive scholarly vocabulary; self-editing techniques to avoid common English-as-Second-Language (ESL) errors in grammar, syntax and mechanics.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 631.
- Intended for graduate students whose first language is not English.
- Grading in this course is pass/fail.
- Due to the condensed nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply.