IAM 301 Winter 2026

IAM 301 Academic Writing

Academic writing, a formal style used in universities and scholarly publications, is characterized by clarity, conciseness, focus, structure, and evidence-based support. Its purpose is to aid the reader’s understanding. While each subject discipline has its own writing conventions, vocabulary, and types of discourse, students in this course explore some general characteristics of academic writing that are relevant across all disciplines, but are more specifically applicable to disciplines in Islamic studies. Through research, mapping ideas, planning, and writing essays, students acquire and reinforce their academic writing skills in terms of use of methods of research, note-taking, use of appropriate diction, building coherent structure, use of evidence, formulation of theses, referencing, use of citation, tone and style of writing, positioning and other macro- and micro-level academic writing skills. Students interested in pursuing academic research in the humanities, particularly Islamic studies, will benefit from this course.

Schedule

Wednesday – 10 AM to 1 PM

12 Weeks + Exam