10-week course content

Oral Presentations

Oral Presentations allow each student to practice delivering oral presentations on a theme related to their degree intention. Training is given in:

• structuring a talk
• selecting an appropriate style of language
• developing awareness of the audience's needs
• using notes to avoid reading from a script
• using aids such as PowerPoint.

Writing

This component trains students in the processes of producing an academic essay and an academic report including:

• using sources and avoiding academic misconduct (plagiarism)
• structuring a paragraph
• organising the essay/report
• academic style
• discourse markers
• grammar.

The topics are related to degree intention and the report includes an element of research.

Reading

This component trains students in the process of:

• sourcing materials
• evaluating
• paraphrasing/summarising.

Study Skills & Lecture Programme

This component prepares students for their lectures and connects their lectures to related seminars. The following skills will be covered:

• note-taking
• signposting in lectures
• preparatory reading
• reflective analysis
• summarising.