This course is to build upon the foundation of good written communication skill acquired by the student in the Academic Writing I through exercises that consolidate the student’s knowledge, skills and strategies, and prepare the student for scientific written communication needs at the higher levels.This course involves Writing activities will derive from these reading tasks and students will be guided to develop their writing through process writing, which involves pre-drafting, drafting, re-writing and revising. In this broad context, students will revise and consolidate their grammar through proof reading and editing activities. The course will also involve training students to write from multiple sources as preparation for doing research-based writing. Activities will be geared towards getting students to develop the skills of extracting and sorting 11 information from multiple sources and synthesizing them into coherent arguments in an essay. Students will be required to write such a synthesis essay for assessment. Subsequently, students will be introduced to academic presentation skills.