About Advanced Writing Skills
Advanced Writing Skills is a higher level writing course which extends from the preceding course: intermediate Writing Skills. This course focuses on various modes of advanced level of writing: Argumentation: refuting, appropriate reasoning, using solid evidence. Descriptive discourse: introduction to description, types of description, descriptive vocabulary, producing descriptive paragraphs and essays; Narrative discourse: introduction to narrative, ways of developing ideas in narratives, narrative diction, narrative paragraphs and essays, writing stories; expository discourse: Introduction to exposition, types of exposition (process exposition, comparison and contrast, analogy, problem to solution, illustration, exemplification, etc). Furthermore, skills such as summary writing and précis will be reflected. The course is also intended to develop students’ skills in critical writing and identification of informal fallacies in argumentation. Besides, through all stages of the course, grammatical and fluency issues will be addressed so that students build up their confidence and awareness about academic writing in general and essay writing skill in particular.