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Advanced Certificate Course in Academic Writing

Beginning with a series of lectures on the writing process, this course will walk you through the fundamentals of brainstorming, outlining, developing, and presenting your ideas persuasively. You will learn how to develop strong thesis statements, construct supporting paragraphs, and engage your audience through effective introductions and conclusions. Most importantly, you will have access to professional feedback to your questions, concerns, anxieties, and writing.

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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course unit, the student should be able to perform the following tasks:

• To develop a strong thesis statement
• To maintains the flow of writing in the literature section
• To use the scientific writing styles while keeping readers’ interest
• To format the research report as per the University guidelines
• To understand how to write a cover letter and the way of constructing the questionnaire

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Course Content

• Fundamentals in Academic Writing
• Verb Tenses
• Compound, Complex, and Compound-complex Sentence Constructions.
• Conjunctions, Connectives, and Clauses
• Punctuation Marks
• Active Voice and Passive Constructions
• Presentation Skills
• Essay Writing
• Summarizing & Paraphrasing Academic Texts
• Summarizing Graphs and Maps
• Writing an Abstract
• Writing a Literature Review
• Developing a Research Proposal