Language needs awareness

• Diagnose English writing difficulties and understand own needs for language improvement,
• Discuss writing issues in a culturally sensitive environment,
• Understand cross-cultural differences in logic, topic development, rhetorical patterns, and/or argumentation,
• Clarify misunderstandings of faculty feedback,
• Locate and effectively use resources for independent and/or guided English writing practice and developement.

Macro-level writing difficulties

• Understand the linguistic realizations of the conventions of research genres,

• Enhance overall communicative effectiveness, substantiation of claims, and use of appropriate discourse features,

• Clarify purpose to ensure appropriate discourse structure,
• Choose appropriate linguistic signals and signposts in the development of scientific arguments,
• Use appropriate language structures to sustain consistency and cohesion,
• Improve understanding and use of strategies for concise and precise writing,
• Use appropriate language structures to express author stance.

Micro-level writing difficulties

• Address recurrent grammatical and stylistic errors,
• Clarify the meaning of unclear sentences and phrases,
• Make appropriate lexical choices to clearly express intended meaning in small stretches of text,
• Expand academic English vocabulary.