511251 - ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS LAB

The course aims to develop, or refine, English writing skills, thus targeting the "writing" competence of the four linguistic skills (writing, listening, reading, speaking). Specifically, at the end of the course, students will be able to: 1) Use appropriate vocabulary (specialized or neutral) depending on the writing context 2) Master English morphosyntactic structures, including syntactic complexity (hypo- and para-taxes) 3) Use a style and register consistent with academic writing and be clear enough in the concepts presented without being too verbose 4) Divide the text into cohesive and coherent paragraphs, depending on the progression of the topic(s) being discussed 5) Know how to use ad hoc formulas to clearly convey the most important information to the reader, distinguishing it from the remaining background information 6) Begin and end a text appropriately and with the right formulas, especially an essay 7) Use connectives appropriately to improve textual cohesion and coherence 8) Use punctuation correctly