Academic writing is a foreign language even to native English speakers. Nobody has a natural ability to write amazing college papers or “feel" how to construct an academic text properly. How to start your paper? How to get your ideas across? How to find and self-correct your grammar mistakes? How to find the right words?... Everybody writes. We can't escape writing in school! You will take the first steps in becoming a writer in this class, wrestling with American Academic Honesty policy, grammar, reading, writing, paraphrasing, analyzing, and creating your own texts.