On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an ability to work effectively in a small group learning environment using collaborative strategies including oral communication
2. Demonstrate an ability to critically read, analyse and make meaning from academic and industry-related texts
3. Demonstrate an ability to identify and use aspects of Academic Writing, including different genres of Academic English
4. Locate and cite arguments and evidence using the conventions of academic research
5. Identify and summarise the main points of arguments
6. Produce a well-structured, logical, coherent and cohesive response to writing tasks using appropriate academic language structures
7. Demonstrate an ability to communicate orally in formal context, including appropriate selection of material, clear organisation, effective presentation and the ability to adapt to audience, setting and occasion

1. Academic writing skills: the features of academic and professional language
2. Academic reading skills: understanding meaning from context
3. Academic reading skills: identifying and highlighting key ideas, arguments and evidence
4. Academic reading skills: interpreting graphs and charts
5. Academic Integrity: the importance of referencing, citation and paraphrasing
6. Academic writing skills: sentence, paragraph and report structure
7. Academic writing skills: summarising, paraphrasing, synthesising and referencing
8. Academic writing skills: the report writing process
9. Academic writing skills: achieving coherence and cohesion
10. Group work skills: skills and strategies for effective group work
11. Oral Presentation skills: language and presentation techniques for presentation
1. Academic writing skills: the features of academic and professional language
2. Academic reading skills: understanding meaning from context
3. Academic reading skills: identifying and highlighting key ideas, arguments and evidence
4. Academic reading skills: interpreting graphs and charts
5. Academic Integrity: the importance of referencing, citation and paraphrasing
6. Academic writing skills: sentence, paragraph and report structure
7. Academic writing skills: summarising, paraphrasing, synthesising and referencing
8. Academic writing skills: the report writing process
9. Academic writing skills: achieving coherence and cohesion
10. Group work skills: skills and strategies for effective group work
11. Oral Presentation skills: language and presentation techniques for presentation