This course is titled, Academic Writing for
MATESL Students. It serves two major purposes for international MATESL students
at this University.
- It gives important background and practice
to current graduate students, who are required on a dialy basis to engage
in a variety of academic writing exercises.
- It
gives MATESL students a chance to "practice what they preach"
in writing instruction.
Most international students in the MATESL program
will return to their countries of origin upon completion of their graduate
studies here at the University. They will fill posts from elementary to higher
education as well as private institutes catering to pre-school students and
business people alike. The focus of the MATESL program is adult education
and it is usually the case that adult students are preparing to operate in
"westernized" situations including business and educational environments.
In these situations, American academic styles of writing and the different
stategies utilized in academic writing are useful: summarizing, paraphrasing,
and outlining. Students will learn and practice these techniques while concurrently
researching and demonstrating alternative methods of instructing these materials.