This course is for those who are working on writing up their research (in English). Those working on a research article, a master’s or a Ph.D. thesis will profit from this course.  Indeed, in order to benefit from the course, experience has shown that participants should be able to submit "work in progress," that is, they should have some writing outside this course that they are working on (such as an article or a thesis) that they can try to improve in this course.  This course is not designed for those trying to improve their general academic writing in English in order to write better seminar papers – essay writing courses do this better.  In this course we will, first, analyze the structure of the argument in the research paper in your discipline, concentrating especially on the structure of a good introduction.  Second, we will examine strategies to write better academic prose, concentrating on improving coherence and flow. In the last few weeks of the course, students will read each other’s work (usually up to approximately 10 pages of an ongoing project). The grade for the course will be based on your written work and class participation.