This course is for PhD students, researchers and staff/visiting academics in the College of Life Sciences (CLS) and College of Science and Engineering (CSE). This course has 3 modules. Each module is 8 weeks. You can choose to study one, two or all three modules.
Module 1
Course content
- Study language for use in a research meeting
- Discuss key features of scientific academic writing
- Study language for evaluating the research of others
- Identify how an appropriate referencing system is used in your subject area
- Discuss cohesion in paragraphs and across long texts
- Study the organisation and language of academic presentations
- Orally describe your research in an academic presentation
- Practice answering challenging questions about your research
Module 2
| Duration |
8 weeks |
| Classes |
2 hours a week |
| Tutorial |
Optional |
| Module leader |
Dr Chris Wolf
|
| Contact |
insessional@le.ac.uk
|
Course content
- Describing your research in a poster presentation format
- Features of introductions to longer pieces of writing
- The sections of a probation or progress report
- The organisation and language of literature reviews
- Language for describing research methods
- Language for reporting results
- Language for discussing research findings
- Features of conclusions to longer pieces of writing
Module 3
All modules for term 3 will be delivered online.
Duration
|
6 weeks |
| Classes |
2 hours per week |
| Tutorial |
Optional |
Module leader
|
Dr Chris Wolf |
| Contact |
insessional@le.ac.uk |
Course content
- Give an oral summary of your research
- Study the language and organisation of abstracts
- Identify ways of making writing more precise
- Study features of paragraph cohesion
- Study ways of justifying research orally and in writing
- Identify key differences between spoken and written academic English