WCOM 642. Cornerstones of Academic Writing.
Credits: 1
Offered by: McGill Writing Centre (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Key strategies for scholarly communication across disciplines: reading scholarly texts for structure; applying these structures in writing assignments. Four cornerstones of academic writing: audience, purpose, organization, and style. Identifying and targeting audiences, clarifying the purposes served by different writing projects, organizing ideas, and developing mastery of rhetorical and stylistic conventions.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEAP 642. Only open to graduate students.
- Due to the condensed nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply.
- Grading in this course is pass/fail.