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School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

Preparing for your First Assignment

Module code: EAL4621

HEAR transcript: included as co-curricular activities 

Module duration: 10 weeks / 2 hrs a week 

Skills Points for doctoral students: 10

Non-credit bearing  

Preparation and assessment: none 

This is a 10-week module consisting of workshops and tutorials, designed to give you a hands-on experience and individualised support. The module offers an in-depth introduction to different types of academic texts commonly used for assessment, such as an essay, report, annotated bibliography or literature review. You will study how to structure your writing, compile effective paragraphs, draw on various rhetorical tools to impress your readers, synthesise sources, include literature to support your claims and use online referencing tools.

Key skills: planning, genre awareness, reader-oriented writing 

Students' feedback on this module: 

"This was a very useful class. It helped to understand what's required of me in academic writing."

"I enjoyed meeting other students and sharing my ideas with them."

"The teachers was very supportive and helped me to work on my own assignment. I am very grateful for that!" 

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