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EL10692: Academic writing for postgraduate research

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 2
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • EU10692 (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 to enable them to write theses and other extended research papers.

Learning Outcomes:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Plan and write an outline paper for a thesis
* Understand how to structure a doctoral thesis
* Identify and apply the discourse features of the different sections within a thesis
* Take notes from and summarise texts
* Critically evaluate texts
* Incorporate ideas from source material, including direct quotations, without plagiarising
* Adopt a position in relation to others' research and opinions
* 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.

Skills:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Analyse the requirements of a task
* Plan a task
* Think critically about the research or opinions of others
* Communicate ideas through writing.

Content:

* Planning and writing a research proposal
* Incorporating reading material and avoiding plagiarism
* Referring to sources
* Structure of a thesis
* Addressing other tasks required by doctoral students, such as abstracts, literature reviews, transfer papers
* Paragraph structure
* Cohesion within and between paragraphs
* Academic style - showing and avoiding personal commitment
* Grammatical accuracy and punctuation
* Proofreading and editing
Programme availability:

EL10692 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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