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SPRING SEMESTER 2008

ACADEMIC ENGLISH DROP-IN WORKSHOPS
MARKET CAMPUS

Develop your language skills and improve your results. These workshops are FREE and open to all students.

Fridays 10.00 am – 12.00 noon
Room CM05C.01.21 (Market campus)
Commencing Week 2 of semester

You do not need to register for these workshops. You can attend all the workshops, or only the ones you are interested in.

Date
 Skills Topics
8 August
Academic reading/ writing

Reading critically; Taking notes; Annotated bibliographies; Critical reviews

  • managing heavy reading loads
  • taking notes from textbooks and articles
  • understanding the difference between description/analysis and evaluation
15 August
Academic writing

Avoiding plagiarism

  • paraphrasing
  • summarising
  • quoting
  • citation verbs
  • Harvard referencing style
22 August
 Essays
  • features of academic English
  • the deductive style essay
  • editing for coherence and cohesion
29 August

Reports

  • business reports
  • research reports
  • case study reports


 
   

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?

The ELSSA Centre runs weekly workshops for all students. These workshops address issues and topics which will assist you in your studies at UTS.

 

WHO CAN ATTEND?

Students from all undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are welcome to attend.

 

WHAT ISSUES ARE COVERED?

Each week, seminars will cover topics such as how to prepare and write literature reviews, essays and case studies, and how to reference your work. Time is also set aside in these sessions for individual consultations on how you can improve your academic performance.

For more information, please check the Undergraduate or Postgraduate noticeboard, or visit the ELSSA Centre (Level 18, Tower Building).

  
   
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