ALL Courses and Workshops
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Non-award Courses and Workshops
Semester Two Timetable 2008
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For undergraduates: also open to other interested students
Course |
Location |
Day |
Date |
Time |
Writing academic essays (WAE)
|
36-107 |
Monday |
August 25
|
2.30 – 4.30 pm |
Improving your critical reading skills (ICRS) |
36-107 |
Monday |
September 8 |
2.30 – 4.30 pm |
For postgraduate research students
Workshop |
Location |
Day |
Date |
Time |
Seminar Room |
Wednesday |
September 17 |
10.00 am - |
|
Room 15-152 (ITEE) |
Thursday |
September 18 |
10.00 am - |
For students from language backgrounds other than English
Course |
Location |
Day |
Date |
Time |
Grammar workshop (GW)
|
36-205 |
Thursday |
August 21 |
10:00 am - |
FOR CADETS AND MIDSHIPMEN: ALSO OPEN TO OTHER INTERESTED STUDENTS
Writing academic essays (WAE)
Course description
The ability to write a well organised and clearly argued essay is a major requirement for many courses at university. Although many students are familiar with how to write school essays, a good university level academic essay is more exacting and tightly structured. In this 2-week course, you will review the key requirements of a good academic essay, the stages in the process of production and the importance of analyzing the question, preparing an outline of your argument, supporting the argument with appropriate evidence and appropriately structuring the final essay.
Course length: 2 workshops of 2 hours each
Day: Monday
Dates: August 25,
September 1
Time: 2.30-4.30 pm
Place: 36-107 (Building 36, Downstairs Reading Room)
Improving your critical reading skills (ICRS)
Workshop description:
In many university courses, you are required to read extensively. This workshop aims to help you read more efficiently and more critically, by introducing you to a number of important reading strategies. You will develop these strategies by reading several academic texts and by practising a number of useful techniques including skimming, predicting and evaluating.
Course length: 2 sessions, 2 hours each
Day: Monday
Dates: September 8,
September 22
Time: 2.30-4.30 pm
Place: 36-107 (Building 36, Downstairs Reading Room)
FOR POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS
Doing your research project (DYRP)
Workshop description:
This short introductory course gives first time research students a brief overview of the steps involved in doing their research project from initial planning to final write-up. It will consider differences in academic expectations across cultures, academic writing conventions in different disciplines, note-taking strategies, thesis structuring and organization, time management and ways to overcome some of the common panics and pitfalls research students may encounter.
Course length: 4 hours
Day: Wednesday
Date: September 17
Time: 10.00 am-12.00 pm and 1.00-3.00pm
Place: Seminar Room, Library (Ground Floor)
Effective citing and avoiding plagiarism (ECAP)
Workshop description:
Designed especially for postgraduate research students, this course helps students to identify what might be classified as ‘plagiarism’ in their own writing and gives them an opportunity to practise some key strategies to help them avoid plagiarizing unintentionally. The course will also give students a brief overview of some of the key referencing systems including in-text systems such as Harvard and APA as well as footnote systems such as the Oxford system and IEEE.
Course length: 4 hours
Day: Thursday
Date: September 187
Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm and 1.00 - 3.00pm
Place: Room 15-152 (ITEE)
FOR STUDENTS FROM LANGUAGE BACKGROUNDS OTHER THAN ENGLISH
Grammar workshop (GW)
- ALL NEW MATERIALS
Course description:
Students from language backgrounds other than English need to continue working on their English proficiency during their studies. If you are a student from a language background other than English, this weekly class focuses on the most common errors that LBOTE students struggle with, providing hands-on practice activities and grammar exercises to help you improve your academic writing and proof-reading skills.
Course length: 5 sessions of 2 hours each
Day: Thursday
Dates: August 21 - September 25
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Place: 36-205
Course electives in degree programs
FOR UNDERGRADUATES
ZGEN 2206: Academic and Professional Writing
UOC6 HPW2
S2 On-campus
Staff Contact: Geoff Millar
The aim of this course is to develop students’ academic and professional writing and research skills. Students will critically analyse academic texts in order to learn about the ways in which academic writers communicate their arguments in different disciplines and for different audiences. They will research and write such different text types as a critical review or a report and an evaluative essay. They will use content from their own disciplines wherever possible, and apply appropriate strategies to improve their writing, strengthen their argument and express their meaning more clearly.
FOR POSTGRADUATES
ZHSS 8120: Academic Practice: Critical Reading and Writing
UOC6 HPW2
S2 On-campus/Distance Ed
Staff Contact: Fiona Cotton
This course is designed for students who are new to the university context or who have been out of study for a significant period of time. The aim of the course is to enable these students to clarify expectations about academic culture, study academic discourse, review academic writing conventions in different disciplines and develop the appropriate skills to read critically and write appropriately in an academic context. Students will analyse the arguments and the linguistic features of readings specific to their particular disciplines and write both a critical review and an argument essay on a topic related to their studies. Grammatical features which enable writers to convey meaning with greater precision will also be studied.
ZHSS 8119: Academic Discourse: Analysis and Writing (for international students)
UOC6 HPW2
S1 On-campus
School Contact: Fiona Cotton
Enrolment Requirements: All applicants will be required to attend the pre-semester Academic Preparation Course and to undertake a written test to evaluate their English language proficiency in order to enrol in this course.
Designed primarily for international students, this course aims to enable students to study academic discourse and to develop the language skills necessary to read effectively and write appropriately in an academic context. The course will develop critical reading, note-taking and summary writing skills. Students will critically evaluate a reading specific to their particular disciplines, write a critical review and practise sentence and paragraph construction in order to develop their essay writing skills. Attention will be paid to grammatical features, identified in the diagnostic test, which enable writers to convey meaning with greater precision.