This doctoral seminar course is designed to introduce PHD students to the making and presentation of scholarly works through reading, analyzing, and critique of published academic texts. As an advanced research writing course, one key component of the course will be on the construction, deconstruction, and evaluation of academic genres of writing, and the construction, negotiation, and co-construction of academic discourse and scholarly identity in the publication process. The course will hence foreground the need for students to develop a principled and critical way of evaluating and developing research articles, as well as to empirically investigate into the sophisticated means of academic identity construction in ERPP writing practices. Meanwhile, it will also require students to reflect on how the understandings and skills they gain from this course can be deployed in their own research and writing. A working paper intended for publication in an English academic journal is expected at the end of the class.

CILO-1: Demonstrate understanding and skills in the analysis, evaluation and interpretation of research writing. CILO-2: Show critical awareness of issues of reliability, validity, and generalizability. CILO-3: Practice the intellectual discipline and critical skills necessary for scholarly work in the field of applied linguistics: objectivity, respect for and fidelity to sources, awareness of and sensitivity to ethical issues, collegiality and critical thinking. CILO-4: Develop and use appropriate research writing skills such as conciseness and preciseness in language use, logical presentation of arguments, appropriate construction of academic voice/identity both in the research article and in the written interaction with reviewers and editors. CILO-5: Show written dissertation proposal, or a working paper intended for publication in an English academic journal in their field.