This course has been designed to suit the needs of doctoral students conducting educational research. The course aims to develop and sharpen doctoral students’ academic and professional writing skills and strategies in Chinese and English, and build their proficiency and confidence as academic writers. Students will be equipped with the genre structure of research writing (e.g., introduction, literature review and discussion) and learn how to report empirical research in research articles and theses/dissertations.

CILO-1: Develop knowledge and competence for their own development as an academic writer. CILO-2: Appreciate academic writing as a process and as a craft, and describe the academic writing processes. CILO-3: Compare textual concepts in terms of genre, information structure, and visual rhetorics. CILO-4: Show understanding of the research ethics issues in academic writing, and describe strategies about how to avoid plagiarism in academic writing. CILO-5: Enhance accuracy, fluency, complexity, and confidence in research writing. CILO-6: Demonstrate awareness of the genre structure, purposes and contexts of research writing. CILO-7: Design, both structurally and rhetorically, their research paper and dissertation in an efficient way.