LN951
Argumentation and Style
This information is for the 2025/26 session.
Course Convenor
Dr Alison Standring
Requisites
Additional requisites:
This course is for students who speak English as a foreign language.
Course content
This course develops students’ ability to construct and deliver effective arguments in both written and spoken academic contexts. Emphasizing clarity, coherence, and stylistic control, the course guides students in analyzing a range of academic and professional texts to enhance their discourse management, language accuracy, and lexical and grammatical range so that students can communicate complex ideas persuasively and appropriately.
Teaching
This is a 4-week course consisting of four 1-hour classes. The course will be offered at different times during the academic year namely: AT Wks 2-5; AT Wks 7-10; WT Wks 2-5 and WT Wks 7-10.
Key facts
Department: Language Centre
Course Study Period: Autumn Term
Unit value: Non-credit bearing
FHEQ Level: not applicable
CEFR Level: Null
Total students 2024/25: Unavailable
Average class size 2024/25: Unavailable
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