Our Academic Language & Skills Classes might use key texts relating to your subject area, consider language issues relevant to a lecture or assignment, or help you prepare for an assessment or examination.
These classes are offered at all levels of study where schools and departments have requested them. If a class has been set up for your course, it will appear on your personalised timetable to fit with your regular schedule. Most of these classes start in week 3 of Semester 1 and may continue through Semester 2.
For postgraduate research students, we also offer thesis-writing classes. The classes provide Academic English language support to enable you to deal with the various aspects of writing a postgraduate thesis. Researching and writing a thesis can be a lonely and intimidating task, so the materials presented on this course aim to be accessible in order to build confidence and act as a springboard for students to better tackle their own work. The materials also aim to stimulate discussion so that the many conventions surrounding theses and dissertations can be ‘demystified’.
Topics
Topics covered include in our Academic Language & Skills Classes include:
- Nominalisation and noun phrases
- Coherence and clarity
- Exposition and data commentary
- Data interpretations
- Writing conclusions and abstracts.
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