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Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering
Applications will be accepted online through May 19, 2008.
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The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering will be the first of its kind in the U.S. to bring together faculty, programs, and expertise in this discipline across multiple states.
ESL Courses
Summer Intensive Language Institute
Two ESL Writing Courses for Graduate Students
ESL 116G - Composition for Academic Disciplines
6/16/08-7/11/08 003 credits
MTWRF 9:15-12:25 Schedule # 146869
This course is designed for ESL graduate students who are still taking coursework and need to improve their academic writing. Using texts from their individual fields, students will produce descriptive, expository, argumentative, and evaluative texts in which they position themselves. Through rhetorical and language awareness, students will develop their abilities to use vocabulary and grammar in academically appropriate ways.
ESL 497A - Thesis/Dissertation Writing
6/16/08-7/11/08 003 credits
MTWRF 9:15-12:25
Schedule # 146875
This course is designed for ESL graduate students who are in the process of either writing their proposal or their thesis/dissertation. As such, students may register for this course only if they are currently writing up their research. Using a genre-based approach, students will investigate various sections of dissertations in their respective fields, such as introductions and literature reviews. Students will also investigate the language and discourse of these texts to in order to use language and grammar in more rhetorically sensitive and strategic ways.
