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EL10687: Academic writing for undergraduates

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Academic Skills Centre
Credits: 3      [equivalent to 6 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 60
Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
The aim of this course is to improve students' academic writing skills in English in order to help raise the standard of their degree course work and examination answers.

Learning Outcomes:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Analyse essay and other assignment titles and identify what is required
* Plan and write an outline for an essay or report
* Understand how to structure an essay or report
* Take notes from and summarise a text
* Incorporate ideas from source material, including direct quotations, without plagiarising
* Refer to sources appropriately within the text and in the references section of a paper
* Link ideas within and between paragraphs
* Write objectively in an academic style appropriate to their level and discipline
* Identify and correct errors in grammar, punctuation and style
* Plan and write examination answers.

Skills:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Analyse the requirements of a task
* Plan a task
* Communicate ideas through writing.

Content:

* Analysing essay titles
* Planning and writing an essay or report
* Note-taking and summarising skills
* Incorporating reading material and avoiding plagiarism
* Referring to sources
* Essay structure
* Report structure
* Writing introductions and conclusions
* Cohesion within and between paragraphs
* Academic style - showing and avoiding personal commitment
* Paragraph structure
* Grammatical accuracy and punctuation
* Proofreading and editing
* Planning for and writing in examinations
Programme availability:

EL10687 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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