Handbook

The course is designed for students who are new to the university context or who have been out of study for a significant period of time. The aim of this course is to enable these students to clarify expectations about academic culture, study academic discourse, review academic writing conventions in different disciplines and develop the appropriate skills to read critically and write appropriately in an academic context. Students will analyse the arguments and the linguistic features of readings specific to their particular disciplines and write both a critical review and an argument essay on a topic related to their studies. Grammatical features, which enable writers to convey meaning with greater precision, will also be studied.