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April 8, 2022
Duration:
6 months
This course includes:
6 months
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Certificate of completion
6 months
Description
This course is for anybody who is thinking of studying for a university degree and would like to develop the English reading and writing skills needed to succeed. You'll be introduced to academic reading and effective note-making strategies.
You'll develop your essay writing. You'll look at the academic style and vocabulary-building strategies. You'll also enhance your understanding of sentence structure and punctuation. You will learn through a range of engaging activities aimed at extending your existing language skills.
Course learning outcomes
After completing this course you will be able to:- Follow an active reading method to help you read academic texts and make notes
- Critically read source texts and appropriately use the information they contain in your writing
- Link ideas in your writing so that your readers can easily understand your ideas
- Make use of vocabulary and grammatical structures to express yourself more formally
- Make the most of online dictionaries and look at ways to record new words for future use
- Understand how to organize and punctuate sentences to increase clarity.
Course Curriculum
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- Introduction 00:10:00
- Critically processing what you read 00:15:00
- Using information from source texts 00:20:00
- Reproducing information from sources 00:10:00
- Paraphrasing text 00:15:00
- Summarising text 00:15:00
- What is a summary? 00:05:00
- The 5Rs of summarising: reduce, reject, reword, reproduce, repackage 00:05:00
- Writing a longer summary 00:10:00
- Quoting 00:10:00
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- Introduction 00:10:00
- Everyday writing 00:10:00
- Types and structure of everyday writing 00:10:00
- University assignments 00:05:00
- Types of assignment 00:10:00
- Distinguishing between different types of assignment 00:10:00
- Typical challenges 00:20:00
- The essay-writing process 00:20:00
- Some useful strategies 00:30:00
- A step-by-step process 00:20:00
- Planning an essay: the pre-writing steps 00:15:00
- Reading the essay question 00:10:00
- Identifying the instruction words 00:10:00
- Identifying key content words 00:05:00
- Producing a draft outline 00:10:00
- Using diagrams to plan an assignment 00:30:00
- Using diagrams to plan a science assignment 00:20:00
- Planning a report 00:05:00
- Planning a science or a technology report 00:15:00
- Planning a business report 00:15:00
- Introduction 00:15:00
- How to successfully communicate with other people 00:10:00
- Communicating in everyday life 00:10:00
- Communicating with tutors through essays 00:10:00
- From outline to essay 00:10:00
- Using a mind map to identify key themes 00:10:00
- From mind map to revised outline 00:10:00
- Writing an essay based on an outline 00:15:00
- Writing an introduction 00:10:00
- From general to specific 00:20:00
- Organizing paragraphs 00:10:00
- Using a paragraph to make a point 00:20:00
- Presenting your paragraphs 00:20:00
- Using the last paragraph to conclude the essay 00:20:00
- Introduction 00:20:00
- Different situations call for different styles 00:10:00
- Everyday talk 00:10:00
- Written styles in everyday life 00:20:00
- Use of specialist words in everyday life 00:10:00
- Academic style 00:10:00
- Distinguishing between formal and informal texts 00:20:00
- The main features of academic style 00:20:00
- Comparing formal and informal language 00:30:00
- Using formal vocabulary 00:10:00
- Replacing phrasal verbs with one-word equivalents 00:10:00
- Becoming familiar with specialised vocabulary 00:20:00
- Reporting information from sources 00:20:00
- Hedging 00:20:00
- Introduction 00:10:00
- Units of language 00:10:00
- Structuring noun groups 00:10:00
- Giving information in noun groups 00:10:00
- Ordering information before the main noun 00:20:00
- Use of the apostrophe to express possession 00:10:00
- Using noun groups to label diagrams 00:15:00
- Learning to recognize and use noun groups 00:10:00
- Structuring verb groups 00:10:00
- Indicating present, past and future in English 00:10:00
- Selecting the most appropriate tense 00:20:00
- Expressing the past 00:20:00
- Structuring simple sentences 00:05:00
- Simple sentences and independent clauses 00:15:00
- Structuring compound sentences 00:10:00
- Using conjunctions in compound sentences 00:10:00
- Using adverbs in compound sentences 00:10:00
- Structuring a complex sentence 00:10:00
- Connecting sentences with ‘if’ and ‘when’ 00:15:00
- Other connecting words that work like if and when 00:15:00
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