Introduction to ENSC 803
This 13 week course provides an opportunity for you to explore your individual writing processes in order to increase your efficiency and effectiveness (as well as your comfort and confidence) while writing. In addition, you will be provided an opportunity to simulate the processes involved in writing a journal article, presenting a conference paper, and designing a poster presentation. ENSC 803 will also provide you with the skills necessary to write the thesis required for the MASc program.
- By the end of this course, you will have the skills and knowledge required to do the following:
- Change your personal writing processes as needed
- Apply key principles of persuasion and informing to your writing
- Analyze journal articles to recognize issues of audience, purpose, organization, and style
- Apply the basic principles underlying effective oral presentations and poster presentations
- Identify and emulate the explicit and tacit style, organization, and format requirements for journal articles and conference papers
- Identify and follow the submission processes for theses, journal articles, and conference presentations
- Blind review submitted papers and provide useful feedback to authors
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"You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language
by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea,
identifying your ways with his."
~Kenneth Burke~