Suspended in 2025/26
LN996     
Academic Writing Skills

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Dr Alison Standring

Requisites

Additional requisites:

For students from the departments of Anthropology, Gender Studies, Social Policy, Health Policy and Sociology who are interested in learning more about academic writing to assist with coursework, dissertations and exams.

Course content

The course aims to develop the ability to write more effectively for academic purposes. By the end of the course, students will: (a) be familiar with the conventions of academic writing (b) have improved the accuracy, clarity and coherence of their written English c) have become more familiar with the structure of arguments in the social sciences and have practised clear organisation of texts and appropriate paragraphing; (d) have extended their range of lexical and grammatical expression and (e) be able to evaluate their own writing.

Teaching

10 hours of classes in the Winter Term.
10 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.


Key facts

Department: Language Centre

Course Study Period: Autumn and Winter 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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