On Tuesday evenings (6:00-9:15) in Winter Quarter, Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse will offer WRD 587, Academic Writing for International Graduate Students. The course is specifically for international students who write English as a second language. While the course will address features of grammar and style, it is not intended as a remedial writing course, but as an opportunity for students to self-consciously identify and practice Western academic writing competencies through an analysis of genres in their own disciplines. Such an approach can lead to improved general competency in written English when supported by content-area instructors and augmented by visits to the University Writing Center.
The course will be taught by Dr Jason Schneider. Dr Schneider holds a PhD in English with a specialization in rhetoric and composition, and an MA in Applied Linguistics, for which he wrote a thesis on ESL pedagogy. Professor Schneider has taught Intensive English here in the US, and he's taught English as a second language at the International Language Institute in Cairo, Egypt, and at the International House Language School in Krakow, Poland. Dr Schneider teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in WRD as a full-time faculty member. For more information, contact jschne12@depaul.edu or 773.325.3727.
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