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Overview

This Unit features the skill of academic writing. The overall aim of the Unit is to familiarise you with different types of academic writing and with the wider context of writing at university level. You will become more aware of what makes good academic writing, and find out what is expected of you when you produce different types of writing.

In Part 2, three of the learning objects are based on a lecture about academic writing, so you will have the opportunity to develop your lecture listening skills as well as finding out more about what constitutes successful writing.

Much of information and advice in the learning objects in this Unit will be relevant whether you are an undergraduate or a postgraduate student. 		 

Contents

Part 1: Perspectives on academic writing

Part 2: Advice about writing


 

About these materials

Above is a menu of learning objects [?]. You can study the learning objects in any order, although we recommend that you study them in the order in which they are presented.

Most of the content is presented through audio recordings. So as well as finding out about a particular academic skills topic, you will also get a lot of practice in listening to people speaking in an academic context.

There are two learning objects which are slightly different from the others. These are: Reflecting on academic writing and Academic writing - Further study. Unlike the other objects, there is no inbuilt feedback; they are designed to help you develop your own understanding of the topic of this Unit.