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WCOM 635. ESL: Strategies for Academic Communication.

Credits: 1
Offered by: McGill Writing Centre (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027
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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.

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