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Sima

Academic writing is used in academic contexts like universities and I have always found it hard in English. The most difficult skill in learning English as a foreign language is writing. Choosing the best structures to convey my thoughts and actually translating my thoughts from my L1 to English is the most challenging part. Using correct collocations and words special to a field also is another tough part. I like to work on my academic writing skills practically and get feedback for my drafts and be informed of my personal writing problems. And I like be able to improve my skills at writing papers significantly.

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Rozario, Thoughts about academic writing-

Academic writing will help me to articulate my thoughts and logical arguments structurally, coherently and rhythmically to express my opinion fully, completely and explicitly to my intended audiences.

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Gonzalo - I struggle with the orthography, and I can't express the same as if I was writing in my home language. It is quite annoying that every time I write I need to think how would I write that in my local language.

I hope to get to write more so I can gain practice, because I think that would be very useful for my future.

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Abhijeet Nayak

1) It should be more professional rather than casual.

2) We have to express our research in brief way so that everyone outside of our field can also easily understand.

3) Not to be conflict the way of other writings is my difficulty.

4) My expectations from this is to get an overall view of Research paper.

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Lawry - What I find most challenging about academic writing is expressing my ideas clearly without committing literal translation from my first language. With this course, I expect to learn how to do this better and to feel more confident when I express myself through written communication. In a sense, I believe it will help me with my verbal communication as well.

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Jiajun Cui: Academic writing has its format or template. The challenge part are how to organize the paragraphs and how to organize the logic of the research so that others can easily understand.

The expectations is that after the course I would feel comfortable writing proposal or paper.

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Anissa: I think academic writing is important as it allows for good scholarly publications for educational purposes. Being concise in academic writing is really challenging and it is hard for me to convey my thoughts in writing. I expect to improve my writing skills in the academic field and get more comfortable with it.

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Maria - I think that academic writing can be straightforward. As an international student, academic writing in English is actually the first style that I learned and the one I have more experience in. In academic writing I find it challenging to express all my ideas in a way that is both succinct and clear for the intended audience. For this course, I hope to improve my technical writing skills.

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Kariana

Academic writing is important because we can share ideas with different fields of study :)

Academic writing can be difficult because sometimes I find it hard to write concisely or express my argument without writing too much, and writing argumentatively can be hard for me too

I expect to learn in this course how to teach English academic writing by learning from everyone!

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Mimi:

Academic writing can be challenging because you have to use different words and flow than what you use in everyday speech. I think academic writing can be intimidating to take on for that reason.

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For me the most challenging thing in general for English is the grammar, my expectations for this course is to improve my English skills because I lost 2 acceptances for a doctoral program only because I did not get enough score in the international exam

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Carol - It's difficult to put my thoughts in words, translating technical terms and expressions in my brain can be hard sometimes, finding my "voice" to write in english is also a challenge. With this class, I hope to have motivation to practice and improve my writing skills. I'm also very interested in receiving feedback.