Course info

This module is available in Autumn Term and again in Spring Term. It provides academic literacy training at first year undergraduate level, with a particular focus on the connection between reading and writing for academic assignments. Tasks and source materials are tailored to suit the requirements of students in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Module aims
To help you master the skills required for successful academic study as follows:
- Explore the conventions of writing within your course discipline, including styles of referencing and acknowledgement of sources
- Develop your ability to express ideas with clarity, elegance and precision
- Improve your written language accuracy in terms of style, sentence structuring, punctuation, word choice, spelling.
- Help you to self-asses strengths and weaknesses in your academic writing; to allow you to explore strategies for improving areas of writing which may otherwise restrict your academic achievement
- Develop your skills in critical reading and accurate note-taking
- Give you practice in synthesising ideas from sources and in developing a well reasoned argument
- Provide advanced practice in paraphrase, summary writing, use of quotation and in-text referencing.