Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
0 Hour(s) 53 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Dr. Kurdali
Course Overview
Reading-to-Writing Strategy: Learn how to approach assignments by effectively reading and extracting key information for
This course is designed to help you build the essential skills needed for academic success, especially if you are an international student whose first language is not English. Adapting to university-level reading and writing can be challenging, particularly when faced with unfamiliar academic conventions and complex texts. This course will provide practical strategies to help you overcome these difficulties.
You will learn how to approach written assignments with a clear reading-to-writing strategy, making it easier to understand complex texts, extract key ideas, and structure your work effectively. This is particularly useful for non-native speakers who may need additional support in processing dense academic material.
You will also develop techniques for writing strong, coherent paragraphs while maintaining an appropriate academic style, ensuring your arguments are clearly expressed and well-structured. To help you avoid plagiarism, the course will guide you through rewriting and paraphrasing, teaching you how to express ideas in your own words with clarity and coherence.
Additionally, you will gain practical strategies for navigating research and dissertation writing, which are often some of the most demanding aspects of university study. Learning how to engage with academic sources effectively will not only help you complete assignments with confidence but also prepare you for more advanced research work in the future. The skills developed in this course will be invaluable throughout your academic journey.
Course Content
- 9 section(s)
- 10 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Unit 1- Section 1: Types of Sources
- Section 2 Unit 1- Section 2: Evaluating Sources for Academic Search
- Section 3 Unit 1- Section 3: Planning and Writing
- Section 4 Unit 2- Section 1: Paragraph Writing and Academic Style
- Section 5 Unit 2- Section 2: Writer's Stance
- Section 6 Unit 2- Section 3: Academic Writing Style
- Section 7 Unit 3- Section 1: Plagiarism
- Section 8 Unit 3- Section 2: Paraphrasing and Summarising Techniques
- Section 9 Unit 3- Section 3: Coherence
What You’ll Learn
- Identify and assess credible and relevant academic sources, Analyse language choices and features to determine tone and accuracy in texts, Develop strategies for managing your reading load and reading more efficiently, Use your readings to plan and inform your writing process, Explore different formats for organising arguments and structuring essays, Synthesise ideas from various sources to incorporate evidence and strengthen your writing, Identify the key elements of paragraphs, Write effective topic sentences and apply proper paragraphing, Introduce counterarguments and clearly state your position, Learn some useful signposting language to introduce and link arguments, Recognise language like reporting verbs that indicate the writer's position and stance., Recognise and practise features of proper academic writing style, Recognise different forms of plagiarism and develop strategies to avoid them., Identify instances of plagiarism in academic writing and understand the reasons behind them., Learn and apply effective techniques to create original text while properly crediting sources., Master paraphrasing through effective methods and hands-on practice., Understand different types of coherence in writing and how they enhance readability by connecting ideas smoothly., Use signposting language and transition words/phrases effectively within and between paragraphs., Organise ideas logically and emphasise key messages through sentence structures that promote coherence.
