Intensive English Institute

Cost

$1,650 (The cost of the course may be covered by a graduate assistantship, fellowship, employee tuition waiver, or personal funds)

Prerequisites

Referral from UMaine graduate advisor or the Graduate School

Course Description

This course is for graduate students who are non-native English speakers. Students will read and analyze the content, structure, and style of a wide range of academic and professional writing in order to improve their own essays, articles, reports, theses, critiques, and proposals using those features. They will learn to explain, support, compare and argue their ideas effectively through attention to organization, vocabulary, and style. Grammar will be infused into the course as it applies to revision and editing of written work and consistency within various types of writing. Students will use a variety of strategies to improve skills in idea development, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, grammar and mechanics. Writing tasks will be integrated with content, vocabulary, and grammar from various texts.

Course Goals

Participants fine-tune writing skills through analyzing models, writing up research and creating professional correspondence. Course topics include effective argumentation, academic style, coherence, conciseness, and clarity. Strategic use of sentence structure and vocabulary is also covered. Students will receive feedback on each writing assignment and individualized discrete grammar instruction.

Student Learning Outcomes