Academic Writing

Are you an advanced international student, researcher, or ESL speaker who is proficient in English, but need to upgrade your academic writing skills?

This course will improve your accuracy in:

• writing mechanics
• all areas of grammar
• the essentials of effective writing style and organization

Lectures and workshops provide assistance in writing:

• summaries
• abstracts
• technical reports
• academic papers

Course Number: WCWP-40000
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

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1/9/2023 - 3/17/2023

$500

Hybrid

La Jolla

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• SECTION ID:

  170656

• CLASS TYPE:

  In-class + web based.
  
  This learning experience is intentionally designed as a combination of in-class and web-based instruction. In-class meetings follow the published schedule. Students are also expected to engage with course content online during the published course dates.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Flenniken, Lauren, TESOL Certification

  Lauren Flenniken is an English instructor at UC San Diego’s English Language Institute. She grew up in Southern California and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2001 and received a Master of Arts in English from California State University Long Beach in 2006. She began her teaching career as a high school English teacher in Jeju-do, South Korea where she taught for 3 years. After leaving South Korea, Flenniken taught collegiate level English courses for two years at Salalah College of Technology in the Sultanate of Oman. This will be her third year teaching English at UC San Diego’s English Language Institute where she specializes in teaching intermediate to advanced writing courses.  

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Longman Academic Writing Series 4: Essays 5th
  by Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780134663319

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 1/12/2023.
  1st no meeting date: 1/16/2023.
  2nd no meeting date: 2/20/2023.
  

• NOTE:

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
1/9/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
1/23/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
1/30/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
2/6/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
2/13/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
2/27/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
3/6/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
3/13/2023	Mon	5:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Room 126, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla