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Aims and objectives

This course helps you to:

• understand the differences between spoken and written academic English and the reasons for those differences
• practise varying your language for assignments and presentations
• improve your grammatical accuracy in spoken and written contexts

Please discuss with your tutor which of the following weekly topics you would like to cover in the course:

Aims and objectives

This course will help you to give presentations more confidently and participate more successfully in discussions with staff and other students. Specifically, it will help you to: 

• identify and overcome difficulties with particular sounds
• practise sounds that are difficult in combination
• understand stress in words and sentences and the difference this can make to individual sounds

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop your speaking skills and provide the opportunity to practise in a friendly, relaxed environment. It will:

• help develop your confidence and fluency in speaking
• extend your knowledge of vocabulary related to non-academic topics and give you the opportunity to practise discussing these topics in English
• enable you to become aware of certain strategies used by speakers to participate in discussions
• provide you with the language necessary to communicate in different situations on and off campus

Possible topics

Aims and objectives

This course helps you to read university texts more efficiently and confidently, by helping you to:

• adjust your reading approach for different purposes
• identify key ideas and arguments
• interpret academic language
• evaluate the reliability and relevance of sources
• judge where AI tools can be useful, and where they can be misleading or academically inappropriate

Aims and objectives

Designed for both home and international students, this course equips you with strategies to question, analyse, and engage with academic texts. Over eight interactive sessions you will: 

• understand what 'critical' really means in an academic contexts
• explore how authors build arguments - and how you can unpack them
• spot stance, bias and hidden assumptions
• connect readings into academic conversations
• practise using sources with confidence in your own writing

Through real examples and hands-on activities, you’ll develop sharper reading skills and a more academic voice—key assets for essays, research, and seminars.Whether you want to read smarter, write stronger, or just feel less overwhelmed by dense texts, this course is for you. Join us and learn to read like a scholar. 

Aims and objectives

This course aims to familiarise yourself with the university expectations for avoiding plagiarism, developing a critical approach, and maintaining academic style in coursework. It will help you to:

• use information from different reading sources to support your argument, to develop your own ‘voice’ in academic writing, and to avoid plagiarism
• take a critical approach to reading/writing and use strategies for critical writing
• understand academic conventions for referencing
• use academic style appropriately

Aims and objectives

This course helps you develop a clearer and more precise writing style, particularly in the areas of:

• correct expression of ideas for precise meaning
• appropriate formality of grammar and vocabulary
• effective relationships between parts of the text
• clear linking 

Aims and objectives

This course considers the expectations of a master's dissertation in the School of Education, and the function, structure and language of the separate sections.

Aims and objectives 

This course will be useful both for students writing dissertations and those writing a research article (RA) as part of a portfolio. It covers the main components of a master's dissertation in the School of Medicine and of a research article, including common language patterns/usages and rhetorical moves found in research articles published in health-related journals. You do not need to attend all sessions.

Aims and objectives

This course considers the expectations of a master's dissertation in the School of Law, and the function, structure and language of the separate sections.

Aims and objectives

This course considers the expectations, structure and language of a master's report in the School of Geography.

Aims and objectives

This course considers the expectations of a master's dissertation in the School of Computer Science, and the function, structure and language of the separate sections.

Aims and objectives

You are invited to send part of your writing to the tutor in advance, perhaps from an annual report or from an article you wish to submit to a journal. As a group, we look at a paragraph or two from each person, discussing content, structure, clarity and accuracy. The class provides an opportunity to get ideas and feedback from your peers as well as a tutor.

Aims and objectives

This course is aimed at developing the academic skills of International PGR Bioscience students (PhD and MRes). It aims to improve your ability to convey and exchange ideas in both written and spoken forms. 

Aims and objectives

This course covers the main organisational and language aspects of a first year report for PhD students, including common language patterns/usages and rhetorical moves. PhD and MRes students welcome.

Aims and objectives

This course covers the main organisational and language aspects of a first year report for PhD students, including common language patterns/usages and rhetorical moves. PhD and MRes students welcome.