ESL 502

Credit: 0 hours.

Provides advanced international students additional support in the conventions of professional academic writing in their own fields through the use of Contract Learning. Students practice self-directed learning with support of the ESL instructor by defining their own writing goals and pursuing those goals while writing for their major programs. Lessons in genre analysis enable students to derive field-specific models for research papers, research proposals, theses, dissertations, and critical reviews.

Approved for S/U grading only. Credit is not given toward a graduate degree. Prerequisite: ESL 501, or recommendation from UIUC English as a Second Language Placement Test.

Proof of eligibility must be brought to the first meeting of the class.