Principle of English writing is to help students to develop professional academic writing abilities and enhance the English skill. This course also teaches students not just what an academic writing should look like, but what it should convey. To develop copy editing skills in a technical manuscript in terms of (a) translation errors made from Chinese to English and (b) general writing style errors. To organize and write a research paper or work report in a time-efficient manner. By the end of semester students will develop their abilities to write up a proper abstract and summery of the working paper.

Summarize accurately an argument they have read Locate the thesis of an argument Locate the assumptions, stated and unstated Analyze and evaluate the strength of the evidence and the soundness of the reasoning offered in support of the thesis Analyze, evaluate, and account for discrepancies among various reading on a topic (explain why certain facts are used or not used, why two sources might differently interpret the same facts).

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