
Explore academic writing for ESL students, why it matters in education, and how to communicate ideas clearly while navigating topics, credible sources, evidence, counterarguments, and finalizing drafts amid technology's impact.
Learn how to choose an academic topic for ESL writing, using a case study and branching diagrams to narrow ideas, while introducing essential technology vocabulary.
Learn how to critically analyze essay questions by understanding direction words and their meanings, avoiding misreading prompts, and evaluating what a prompt requires for effective research papers.
Explore key essay types: persuasive, narrative, expository, descriptive, compare and contrast, and cause and effect, and learn how research methodology, direction words, and podcast data shape structure, tone, and evidence.
Learn to begin an ESL research paper by defining the research question, gathering sources, and crafting a thesis statement with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Develop a clear thesis statement in the introduction, define its elements, outline the paper, and link topic sentences and supporting details to a cohesive conclusion.
Learn to craft engaging introductions for essays and research papers, including thesis statements, background information, main points, and paragraph structure, with attention-grabbing hooks for ESL students.
Structure a body paragraph like a hamburger: start with a topic sentence, include supporting sentences with specific evidence, and finish with a concluding sentence tied to the thesis.
Incorporate evidence into your research through summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting with proper in-text citations. Learn to balance sources with your own ideas using paraphrase, quotation, and signal phrases.
Define counterarguments and learn how to include them in a research paper. Apply concession, refutation, and rebuttal strategies, use expert sources, and craft topic sentences that present opposing viewpoints.
This online course focuses on the academic writing of the essay or research paper. It does so in a way that highlights key points and makes concepts easy to understand. The target student is a student who has English as a second or foreign language but anyone is invited to take the course. This online course includes an underlying theme of technology simply because we are living in the fourth industrial revolution and students at some point will have to consider the ideas presented in their everyday lives. This course contains 15 lessons that include hints and tips to help make the research writing process easier. Lessons included in the course cover the core topics of writing a thesis statement, introduction, body paragraph and conclusion as well as additional essentials like writing in academic voice, choosing credible sources, incorporating evidence and counterarguments into one's paper and so forth. Examples are given in most sections to give the student an idea of how to apply the concepts that have been given. Video lessons are short. No main or overall assignment is given as the student is expected to apply all the concepts covered in their own personal academic lives and their own academic assignments they are busy with. A course for all willing to learn!