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EL00717: Critical reading

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Academic Skills Centre
Credits: 0      [equivalent to 0 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: See Director of Studies for further information
Level: Non-credit (FHEQ level n/a)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: Not applicable
Assessment Detail:
  • Not Applicable
Supplementary Assessment:
Not applicable
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
To enable students to raise the standard of their degree course work through reading academic texts more effectively and critically.

Learning Outcomes:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* evaluate texts critically;
* understand academic written texts;
* read more quickly and efficiently;
* take notes from academic written texts.

Skills:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Approach new reading material with confidence.

Content:

* Prediction
* Skimming and scanning
* Reading for gist
* Improving reading efficiency
* Note-taking from academic written texts
* Understanding the writer's intention
* Understanding the meaning of a text
* Distinguishing fact from opinion
* Evaluating an academic text critically.
Programme availability:

EL00717 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Academic Skills Centre

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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