Academic Writing 1: Argumentation Across Disciplines

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This course aims to help students become better academic writers by exploring how the features of a persuasive argument vary across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The course will first explore fundamental features of argumentative writing for a general audience, including organizational structure and language. Fundamentals in mind, the second half of the course explores how these ideas and practices can be adapted for specific academic purposes. The course will seek answers to the following questions: How do the means of persuasion change depending on the audience? How do disciplinary goals shape arguments? How do cultural and language differences influence persuasion in different contexts? How do citation and style conventions differ across disciplinary contexts and why? 001627