English Academic Writing in the Humanities

To introduce the practice of writing academically in English for courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences

1.	Introduction Pre-Writing	What is Academic Writing?,Types of Essays,Strategies and Approaches for the Humanities
2.	Formulating a Thesis	Identifying a Main Idea - Formulating a Theory / Making an Analysis - Thesis Statement Examples
3.	Good and Bad Thesis Statements	Poor Thesis Statements - Types of Research Topics - Implicit Questions within Research Topics
4.	Essay Structure	Good Paragraphs - Parts of the Essay: Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion - The 5-Paragraph Essay
5.	Rhetorical Strategies	Language Variety - Academic Vocabulary - Precision, Directness, Neutral Expressions and “Extreme” Claims - Writing Critically
6.	Writing from Research	Purpose of Research - Academic Sources - Other types of sources - Evaluating your sources - “Common Knowledge” - The CRAAP Test
7.	Reporting, Paraphrasing and Avoiding Plagiarism	Reporting what you read - Paraphrasing and Quotations - How to avoid Plagiarism
8.	Paraphrasing (Continued) Academic Tone Style and Language	Paraphrasing Examples - Academic Tone - Concision - Details in Writing - Sentence Structure - Transition Signals
9.	Format and Referencing	MLA Format - Signal and Reporting Verbs - Grammatical and Syntactical Points - Issues in Punctuation - Common Errors
10.	Revision and Editing Course Review	Editing your work - Peer Critique - Strong and Weak Papers - Consistency - Review of the Course - Works Cited