830 – Academic Writing Skills

Description

20-hour Online Teacher Development Course

Course Description:

This course is for academic research staff who would like some support whilst writing for academic purposes.  It introduces basic research writing skills including: conducting research, note taking, paraphrase, summary, direct quotation, positioning, and MLA or APA style citation.

The programme is designed to help participants produce their next paper. The course will also place emphasis on macro-level composition skills such as: essay structure, paragraph structure, coherence, unity; and micro-level skills such as: sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, spelling and mechanics.

• All our online courses consist of on-demand input videos and downloadable resources, interactive exercises, tasks for the classroom and face-to-face interviews and feedback sessions.

Aims:

The course mainly aims to:

• understand the academic writing process
• develop writing skills and practice them
• to produce a piece of work for publication.
• practice a variety of prewriting techniques
• break large writing projects into manageable pieces
• apply backward planning to reach a goal
• recognizing approach, style, and need for external accountability