The course is designed to help fresh graduate students improve their ability to write academically for graduate coursework. It introduces them to new styles, registers, and genres in academic writing—ones which differ rather significantly from those in the undergraduate level. Areas of focus are the clear organization of ideas, the use of adequate coherence and cohesion within the text, and appropriate academic style through improved word choice, usage, and sentence structure, especially in the accurate use of grammar, punctuation, and citation. This course is not about research skills or methodologies, but skills that help enhance students’ capacity to properly and strategically approach and conduct research in many possibly helpful ways.