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Aims and objectives

This course prepares you for the beginning of your academic study. It will specifically help you:

• be aware of the nature of academic writing and style in university contexts
• be aware of the process of academic writing
• familiarise yourself with the structure of certain types of academic text
• be aware of the support available for your future writing needs

Aims and objectives

This course helps you to:

• understand the differences between spoken and written academic English and the reasons for those differences
• practise varying your language for assignments and presentations
• improve your grammatical accuracy in spoken and written contexts

Aims and objectives

The aim of this course is to help you to:

• develop strategies for learning new academic vocabulary
• improve dictionary and thesaurus skills for your degree study
• understand the basic rules for word formation
• develop an understanding of levels of formality in vocabulary
• become more aware of the connotations and associations of words and expressions 

Aims and objectives

This course helps you to feel more confident when communicating with others and giving presentations as part of your degree studies. Specifically, it will help you to: 

• identify and overcome difficulties with particular sounds
• practise sounds that are difficult in combination
• understand stress in words and sentences and the difference this can make to individual sounds

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your speaking skills and provide the opportunity to practise in a friendly, relaxed environment. It will:

• help develop your confidence and fluency in speaking
• extend your knowledge of vocabulary related to non-academic topics and give you the opportunity to practise discussing these topics in English
• enable you to become aware of certain strategies used by speakers to participate in discussions
• provide you with the language necessary to communicate in different situations on and off campus

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Aims and objectives

This course helps you to read university texts more efficiently and confidently, by helping you to:

• adjust your reading approach for different purposes
• identify key ideas and arguments
• interpret academic language
• evaluate the reliability and relevance of sources
• judge where AI tools can be useful, and where they can be misleading or academically inappropriate

Aims and objectives

Designed for both home and international students, this course equips you with strategies to question, analyse, and engage with academic texts. Over nine interactive sessions you will: 

• understand what 'critical' really means in an academic contexts
• explore how authors build arguments - and how you can unpack them
• spot stance, bias and hidden assumptions
• connect readings into academic conversations
• practise using sources with confidence in your own writing

Through real examples and hands-on activities, you’ll develop sharper reading skills and a more academic voice—key assets for essays, research, and seminars.Whether you want to read smarter, write stronger, or just feel less overwhelmed by dense texts, this course is for you. Join us and learn to read like a scholar. 

Aims and objectives

This course introduces you to the language and communication skills of academic discussions. It will help you to:

• familiarise with a range of academic discussion formats (including group seminars)
• develop communication strategies and confidence for contributing to discussions
• practise with your tutors and peers to receive feedback, suggestions and encouragement 

Aims and objectives

This course will help you deliver an academic presentation with confidence. In particular the course gives you opportunities to:

• become more effective at delivering a presentation in English, in a seminar or similar setting
• raise your awareness of important aspects of successful presentations, such as organisation, using visuals, body language and use of voice
• focus on useful language for presentations 

Aims and objectives

This course helps you to:

• understand a range of types of sources and citations
• synthesise sources in different sections of academic writing
• use synthesis to express rhetorical functions

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop a clearer and more precise writing style, particularly in the areas of:

• correct expression of ideas for precise meaning
• appropriate formality of grammar and vocabulary
• effective relationships between parts of the text
• clear linking 

Aims and objectives

This course will help you to familiarise yourself with the university requirements and expectations for academic coursework writing. The course helps you to:

• plan and organise academic assignments to suit different types of questions
• decide what it is necessary to include in academic essay writing
• keep your content relevant to the question throughout your answer
• use sources appropriately in academic writing 

Aims and objectives

This course helps you to:

• improve grammar and sentence structure in the context of assignment/thesis writing
• be more accurate in expressing yourself at sentence level when you are writing
• notice and correct the grammatical mistakes which lead to unclear meaning 
• choose appropriate sentence structures and vocabulary for assignment or thesis writing

Aims and objectives

This course helps you to:

• organise report sections appropriately
• describe materials and processes
• choose appropriate verb tenses
• write in a clear and concise manner

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your academic writing and provides support for your coursework.  Key objectives are to: 

• to develop your confidence in writing in English
• to develop your written accuracy and fluency in academic contexts
• to develop your ability to self-edit and proofread your own work
• to better manage the process of writing assignments 

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your academic writing and provides support for your coursework.  Key objectives are as follows: 

• Organisation of academic texts
• Argument in academic writing
• Synthesising academic sources in your writing

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your academic speaking skills and provides support for your class and seminar discussions. Key objectives are: 

• developing your confidence as an academic speaker
• practising seminar and class discussion participation strategies

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your academic writing and provides support for your coursework.  Key objectives are to: 

• develop your confidence in writing in English
• develop your written accuracy and fluency in academic contexts
• develop your ability to self-edit and proofread your own work
• better manage the process of writing assignments 

Aims and objectives

This course examines aspects of academic writing and exam skills at postgraduate level, including writing critically, using sources appropriately and preparing efficiently for written examinations. 

Aims and objectives

This course helps you with the key speaking skills required on Business postgraduate courses, including seminar discussions and academic presentations.

Aims and objectives

This course deals with issues relating to writing at postgraduate level in health sciences and content is flexible. 

Aims and objectives

This course deals with issues relating to writing at postgraduate level in law and content is flexible. 

Aims and objectives

This course will help you to familiarise yourself with requirements and expectations in sociology and social policy writing assignments and seminars.

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your academic writing and provides support for your dissertation. Key objectives are to:

• develop logically structured and coherent academic papers
• compose papers that show competence in reflective, analytical and evaluative writing
• critically review theories in academic papers and adapt these to individual research and practice

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your academic writing and provide support for your coursework on the PGCEi. Key objectives are to:

• understand the expectations of academic writing
• consider the relationship between reading sources and writing
• develop the structure and language of academic texts

Aims and objectives

This course develops your ability to read and use sources critically and appropriately, and to improve your academic language. 

Aims and objectives

You are invited to send part of your writing to the tutor in advance, perhaps from an annual report or from an article you wish to submit to a journal. As a group, we look at a paragraph or two from each person, discussing content, structure, clarity and accuracy. The class provides an opportunity to get ideas and feedback from your peers as well as a tutor.

Aims and objectives

The aim of the course is to help you familiarise yourself with requirements and expectations in the faculty.