The course is designed for students who want to improve their academic writing skills to successfully complete their graduate studies. The target groups for the course are advanced graduate students who already have a general background of writing in the graduate studies.

The course covers techniques for any type of academic writing, e.g., essays, reviews, articles, grant proposals and theses.

The students discuss the features of macro- and micro-level composition skills: essay structure, paragraph structure, coherence, sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling.

The students are expected to analyse texts (their own and others'), perform small writing tasks, take part in discussions about aspects of texts, work individually with a partner and instructor on a text they are writing.