The overall aim of this academic writing course is to develop students’ academic writing skills that are required in their future academic and professional career. The course aims to present and practise the organisation and rhetorical structure of academic discourse. During the course students will be given the opportunity to become acquainted with stylistic features of academic writing, e.g. paraphrasing and summarising techniques, will be introduced to paragraph organisation, as well as to the proper use of references and quotations. A further aim of the course is to provide students with practical experience in the process of academic writing in order to improve their accuracy in writing, including appropriate use of grammar and vocabulary.