Weeks 1-11: A summary
Weeks 1-11: A summary
Introduction to PG studies and research culture
Having appropriate expectations of the demands of study
Navigating the online environment
Self-directed learning
Academic social relationships
Understanding a PG task
Different types of assessment tasks
Interpreting an assessment question
Instruction, content, value and scoping words
The genre of the final product
The content required
Working out a plan of attack
Working out the interdependencies
Researching a PG task
Defining research
Your own research experienceSources of research
Internet
Journals
Books
Peer review and journal quality
Critical Reading
Reasonable scepticism
Opinion vs argument
Goals for reading
Critical reading and disciplinary knowledge
Synthesis and critical evaluation
Academic Integrity: note taking and paraphrasing
The intersection of reading and writing
Definition of paraphrasing
The purpose of paraphrasing
Paraphrasing and your own voice
Taking quality notes
Academic Integrity: Referencing
The purpose of referencing
Integrating references to sources well
APA referencing style
Types of academic misconduct and penalties
Whole text structure
Relationship between culture and language
Purpose for writing
Whole text structure especially explanations, expositions, discussions
Stages within texts introduction, body conclusion?
Paragraph structure
Paragraph structure
Topic sentence
Elaboration
Exemplification / evidence
Cohesion
Language for moderating claims
Sentence length
Formal word choices
Critical thinking
Developing an academic voice
Different approaches to voice
The use of first person
Anticipation of the reader
Spoken-like vs written-like language
Appraisal
Nominalisation
Critical Argumentation
truth
Identity
eastern vs western academic writing
Counter-argumentation
