2 Overall Learning Objectives
By reading and completing activities in this resource you will be able to:
- Identify and use different language basics – parts of speech, grammatical and sentence structures
- Demonstrate note-taking skills
- Apply paraphrasing, quoting, summarising, and referencing techniques
- Understand the importance of academic integrity
- Understand and apply annotated reading techniques
- Synthesize and integrate source material
- Write and complete an oral presentation
- Understand the process of academic writing for more than one purpose
- Determine the type of academic writing you might be asked to complete
- Review approaches to developing and structuring ideas
- Develop a thesis statement with a single assertion or dual perspectives
- Apply strategies for planning your writing assignment, including:
- Concept Mapping
- Drafting paragraphs
- Searching for academic sources for quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing
- Integrating sources / evidence, and applying the evidence using reasoning
- Overcoming obstacles to academic writing
- Challenging your preconceived assumptions and biases to write objectively
- Apply strategies for writing cohesive academic essays – including the introduction, body paragraph structure, and a conclusion
- Use key questions for revising and editing
There are activities for you to do throughout this resource. Each activity will have this banner above it:
