Course Information

Practical Course Information

• Class days & times:  Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-3:00 pm

• Modality: Face-to-face

• Location:  Atkins 146

• Credit hours:  3 (pass/fail)

• Professor:  Lisa Russell-Pinson, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

This three-credit course requires three hours of classroom or direct faculty instruction and six hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately 15 weeks.  Out-of-class work may include, but is not limited to, required reading, homework, and written assignments.  

Pre-/Co-Requisites

• Students must be currently enrolled in a graduate program terminating in a graduate certificate, a Master’s degree, or a doctoral degree.

• All students taking Academic Writing must have fulfilled one of the following prerequisites:

• Native-English speaker status, or

• Balanced bilingual status, or

• Completion of K-12 and undergraduate education in English in a predominantly Anglophone country (U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia,...), or

• Completion of GRAD 6210/8210:  Graduate-Level Writing for International Students

Required Course Materials & Technology

• Goodson, P. (2016 or 2023).  Becoming an Academic Writer:  50 Exercises for Paced, Productive, and Powerful Writing, Second or Third Edition.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications.  (Please be sure that you have either the second or third edition of the textbook.)

• Readings and materials identified by the instructor and made available through the GRAD 6212/8212 Canvas page

• A laptop with a camera--If you do not own a laptop, you may borrow one for free from Atkins Library (Atkins offers this service even when the library is closed):  https://library.charlotte.edu/check-out-request/borrow-laptops

• Google Suite, available for free through your UNCC account

• Headphones with a microphone

• Reliable internet access

• Paper

• Pencils and/or pens