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Graduate Writing I: Basic Composition: CAEX 6055/6056
SKIL 6055/6056:
Graduate Writing I: Basic Composition
Graduate Writing I - Basic Composition skills is a course designed to help you strengthen your scholarly writing skills, with a focus on critical reading and effective summary.
NOTE: This course is for Masters or Doctoral students only
Cost: Free
($210 + taxes and fees are charged for 2nd and subsequent course attempts)
Course Information
Course Description
In this 6-week course, graduate students take the first step in developing their reading and writing skills for scholarly work. Students read a research article and summarize its parts, thus becoming more familiar with the language, structure, and style of the academic conversation. In addition to summary writing, topics include APA citation, scholarly voice, and revision. Students also maintain a journal of writing feedback they’ve received and apply that feedback to papers for their discipline-specific courses. After completion, students move on to Graduate Writing II: Intermediate Composition Skills.
Course Outcomes
- Evaluate scholarly writing for strengths and weaknesses
- Use a functional writing process that incorporates critical reading, prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing
- Write clear and mechanically correct sentences and paragraphs in standard English
- Incorporate Instructors’ comments on written work into revised drafts
- Write an evaluative essay with cohesive paragraphs that summarizes main ideas
- Assess progress with writing skills
- Develop a plan for continued learning of scholarly writing
Register for a SKIL course or workshop
To Register for any SKIL course or workshop, contact your Student Success Advisor.
You can contact your Student Success Advisor
- by scheduling an appointment through your myWalden portal,
- via email at studentsuccess@mail.waldenu.edu,
- or by calling 1-800-WALDENU [1-800-925-3368]
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Testimonial
"From all the years which I have participated in academia, this is the first time where I truly was able to comprehend what writing is about. She instructed so that I was able to understand. I was/am amazed at her skill set."