ADV WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

This course focuses on developing sophisticated linguistic competencies essential for academic work across disciplines. Students will analyze and implement complex grammatical structures found in authentic academic texts, with emphasis on hedging devices, reporting verbs, back-shifting verb forms, and advanced syntactical patterns. Through intensive engagement with scholarly articles and academic writing tasks, students will enhance their ability to process and produce higher-level academic discourse in both written and spoken forms. The course integrates advanced academic vocabulary development, rhetorical strategies, and discipline-specific conventions while providing opportunities to work with research-based materials from various academic fields.