The purpose of this course is to help you write your graduation thesis in English. The teachers who administer this course will answer any questions you might have related to writing your thesis and give you advice as you write your thesis. However, they will not write you thesis for you. In addition, please remember that the answers to you questions will not appear instantaneously. If you need help and your paper is due the next day, we're sorry but it's too late.

This course is the first of several studying the "Academic Word List" words which are commonly used in academic texts in English.

This is the second course on the academic word list

The fourth sublist of the AWL

How has the English language changed over the course of the last 500 years? What are the social and political contexts that have affected how these changes have come about? This unit will consider the development of the English language from the 15th to the 19th century.