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Preedarom Building, 4 floor,
5 Preedarom Road,
Hatyai, Songkhla 90110
Tel. 0-7435-5755 Fax. 0-7435-5757
Email : cbright.hatyai@gmail.com
Academic Writing Course
This course is designed for post-graduate students of the Agro-Industry Faculty at PSU. The
course is 30 hours long and will introduce students to a general overview of academic
writing. Academic writing is a skill that needs to be practised often; therefore students will be
required to devote time outside of class to writing tasks assigned by the teacher. The
students need to have a good level of English (an EF level of 6 or above) to take this course.
The first part of the writing course will include reviewing sentence structures including
grammar and punctuation. Students need to have a strong foundation in these skills, as they
are critical for the students in producing a “good” piece of writing. In our experience we find
that when it comes to actually writing an academic piece, students are very weak in
constructing their own sentences. This leads to a lack of cohesion in the writing, which in
turn makes it difficult for the reader to comprehend what the writer is saying.
A section has also been included on writing about graphs and statistics at an academic
level, which will be of great benefit to your students. This section will give them the
opportunity to practise using academic English for presenting their research data, for
comparing and contrasting data and it will also touch on statistical language.
Because academic English is such a wide subject and this course is only 30 hours long, We
have tried to make it relevant to the Agro-Industry Faculty and the needs of the post-
graduate students, for example including a section on graphs and statistics as opposed to
presenting a written argument at an academic level. If the faculty feels that this does not
reflect the needs of the post-graduate students, We are open to discussing and amending
the course outline so the student’s best interests are at heart.
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Preedarom Building, 4 floor,
5 Preedarom Road,
Hatyai, Songkhla 90110
Tel. 0-7435-5755 Fax. 0-7435-5757
Email : cbright.hatyai@gmail.com
Course Outline : Academic Writing
1.Grammar and Mechanics Sentence structure
- order of adjectives and adverbs
- use of articles
- pronouns and determiners
Punctuation
- use of commas
Coordinating conjunctions
2. Approaching the Task Forming ideas
Brainstorming
3. Planning a structure Introduction
- thesis statement
Body
- introducing topics and main ideas
Conclusion
4. Graphs and statistics Vocabulary and phrases for describing data
Contrasting verb tenses
Language of statistics