ENG 119 English for International Graduate Students (3)
This course is for international graduate students at Miami University who are assigned to the course based on their TOEFL scores and the English Department placement exams. The course serves as an American academic orientation with a reading and writing focus and helps graduate students develop advanced skills in academic writing and research, with opportunities to focus on the resources and expectations of their graduate majors Assignments in research and in English grammar complement the aims of the writing assignments; all course work is intended to increase student awareness and mastery of the organizational and grammatical patterns of a successful academic writing. As much as the course is reading and writing-oriented, the course also provides students opportunities to practice their spoken and listening skills through class discussions, peer reviews, and presentations.
