EL7200 Academic English for Postgraduate Media Students

This course is for non-native international postgraduate students from MA Media programmes

This course has 2 modules. Each module is 8 weeks. You can choose to study one or both modules. 

Module 1

Course Content

• Discuss issues connected to media
• Learn how to read academic texts critically
• Identify the author’s opinion in academic texts
• Learn how to develop an effective argument
• Write a paragraph to summarise, paraphrase and link different authors’ opinions
• Recognise sentence functions in a paragraph
• Use evaluative language to express your opinion on sources, both in writing and speaking
• Use sources to support your argument
• Evaluate an introduction and conclusion you have written for your course
• Reference your sources correctly in line with the media department requirements
• Expand your discipline-specific and general academic vocabulary
• Collect fixed academic phrases for writing
• Revise complex grammatical structures used in academic writing
• Apply these language items or features to your own writing

Module 2

Course content

• Study grammatical features to write your dissertation title
• Write formal and extended definitions for your literature review
• Analyse the function and features of a literature review
• Analyse the function and features of a methodology chapter
• Analyse the function and features of a findings and discussion chapter
• Analyse the function and features of a dissertation proposal
• Revise the use of cohesive devices to make links between different sources in your writing
• Expand your discipline-specific and general academic vocabulary
• Collect fixed academic phrases for dissertation writing
• Revise complex grammatical structures used in academic writing
• Apply these language items or features to your own writing