ATS1340 English for academic purposes

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Listen and take notes in a variety of academic settings;

2. 2

   Engage in spoken discussions;

3. 3

   Develop efficient reading techniques;

4. 4

   Locate and scrutinise sources;

5. 5

   Display an understanding of written assessment tasks and complete an outline or plan for a task;

6. 6

   Report the views of other scholars, including the use of various referencing systems: Harvard, APA and Oxford;

7. 7

   Paraphrase and incorporate others' ideas appropriately;

8. 8

   Evaluate the views of other scholars by the following means: use of reporting verbs, summarising and evaluating, comparing and contrasting competing positions, indicating authorial stance, agreeing and disagreeing with published sources;

9. 9

   Build an academic argument through clear argument structure, topic placement and framing of key issues;

10. 10

    Recognise key features of Western scholarship, e.g. individuality, ownership of ideas;

11. 11

    Recognise cross-cultural perspectives on academic learning;

12. 12

    Practise effective proof-reading, editing, summarising and revision techniques;

13. 13

    Develop an understanding of the differences between written academic prose and spoken or colloquial English.