82-721 Academic Reading and Communication Skills for International Graduate Students I

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course focuses on examining text characteristics through analysis at macro and micro levels in order for multilingual graduate students to improve reading skills in English. At the macro level, students will learn strategies and develop skills to identify the norms and conventions of different genres, varying organizational patterns, and discourse markers for cohesion and coherence. At the micro level, students will attend to language use, style format, and again, cohesion and coherence. Students will review a variety of text types on a diverse range of topics with a focus on awareness and comprehension. Course content for 82721 is independent of 82722 students make take either or both courses.

Prerequisites: none listed

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