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WCOM 635. ESL: Strategies for Academic Communication.

Credits: 1
Offered by: McGill Writing Centre (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

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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