Academic Writing is a
supporting English proficiency-cum-writing course designed to help
degree students with their English to help them cope with their writing
of academic essays.
At the end of the
course, the students will have acquired the following:
A wider academic
vocabulary Ability to summarise An ability to plan and structure an academic essay A better ability to interact with academic texts
Each
week there is a class of three hours. The course is organised around
academic writing tasks, summarising and remedial grammar.
The teacher works on expanding the students' active
vocabulary, improving their understanding of concepts, raising
their ability to write about ideas and concepts in their own
words, refining their use of grammar and improving textual
coherence and cohesion in their written work. There is a final
examination to assess how much the students have learnt.
Academic texts Writing Strategies Grammar Vocabulary in Context
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