Result
This self-study short course helps you gain insight into your own writing process, make sense of the problems you face, and develop an efficient and effective strategies for overcoming them. You also learn about the variety of approaches other people take to writing an assignment or thesis, and can learn from each other.
Content
The course is mostly self-study, but you interact asynchronously with other learners in some tasks and have two opportunities for live discussion with a small group and writing centre teacher.
- types of writers
- different writing processes
- breaking up the task of writing
- avoiding writer’s block
- useful strategies for planning, drafting, revsing and editing
Duration and time investment
You have 10 weeks to complete this course, which takes 3-4 hours in total. You can do it all at once, or you can visit each stage of the writing process as you encounter it in your own assignments.
See start dates for this course below.