Spring 2027

Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Graduate-level course examining disciplinary discourse features and covering academic writing skills like data presentation, summarizing, critical analysis, and crafting results/discussion sections.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Karen Best

No specific details about workload or difficulty were provided beyond a low difficulty rating.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Critically analyze the discourse conventions of their chosen discipline and apply those insights to craft effective academic writing that meets professional and scholarly standards.

  • Manage the writing process to suit specific tasks and contexts, including more advanced skills in planning, drafting, editing and revising.

  • Produce a range of academic genres, including summaries, critiques, data commentaries, and problem-solution texts, demonstrating versatility in adapting structure, tone, and purpose to meet disciplinary expectation.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
ESL 349

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KAREN BEST is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 120
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 150

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Karen Best

A past student described Karen Best as the worst ESL teacher at UW-Madison, reflecting a strongly negative experience.

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Karen Best

No specific details about workload or difficulty were provided beyond a low difficulty rating.

Past student reviews · Karen Best

The student rated the instructor's quality highly negatively, calling her the worst ESL teacher at UW-Madison.

Topics

  • Discourse features of a discipline
  • Data presentation, summarizing, critical analysis, results and discussion sections
  • General writing, grammar, and editing

Skills

  • Data presentation, summarizing, critical analysis, and crafting results and discussion sections.
  • General writing, grammar, and editing skills.
  • Planning, drafting, editing, and revising for specific tasks and contexts.

Grades

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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ESL 349 · Spring 2027

Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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