Academic Writing 1

• Week 1 – What is Good Writing?
• Week 2 – The Process of Writing
• Week 3 – Introductions and Conclusions for Essays and Research Reports
• Week 4 – Passive voice and Punctuation
• Week 5 – Essay and Paragraph Structure

Academic Writing 2

• Week 1 – Comparison and Contrast
• Week 2 – Cause and Effect
• Week 3 – Cohesion
• Week 4 – Academic Style
• Week 5 – Editing your Work

Academic listening, reading and note taking

• Week 1 – Listening and Note-taking Strategies
• Week 2 – Listening and Note-taking Types and Practice
• Week 3 – Reading Strategies
• Week 4 – Reading and Note taking Systems and Improving Reading Speed
• Week 5 – Practice and Feedback

Academic Vocabulary

• Week 1 – Vocabulary Learning Strategies
• Week 2 – Intro to AWL and Word Families
• Week 3 – Affixation
• Week 4 – Conjunctions
• Week 5 – Collocation and Concordancing

Writing your Dissertation

• Week 1 – Giving Examples
• Week 2 – Evidence and Proof
• Week 3 – Hedging and Drawing Conclusions
• Week 4 – Citation Techniques and Abstract Writing
• Week 5 – Discussion of Graphs, Charts and Tables

Academic Speaking

• Week 1 – Groupwork discussions 1
• Week 2 – Groupwork discussions 2
• Week 3 – Academic Presentations 1
• Week 4 – Academic Presentations 2
• Week 5 – Academic Presentations 3

General Grammar (Advanced)

• Week 1 – Tense review
• Week 2 – Relative clauses
• Week 3 – Prepositions
• Week 4 – Articles
• Week 5 – Conjunctions

Critical Thinking Skills

• Week 1  Introduction to CTS and reflections on CTS ability
• Week 2 Identifying arguments and applying CTS to texts.
• Week 3 Identifying flaws in the argument and asking critical questions of a text.
• Week 4 Applying CTS to Academic Reading (Being selective and making texts work for you)
• Week 5 Applying CTS to Academic Writing