Course overview
To prepare students for the university environment by equipping them with academic literacy skills.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate key reading, note-taking, summarising, and paraphrasing skills to locate, recognise, evaluate, and utilise key ideas.
- Interpret rules and conventions of academic writing, including the development of written piece from first draft to submission-ready draft.
- Apply planning, structure, and editing to writing; and to evaluate how well their work is meeting marking criteria.
- Create and construct an effective argument to convince a reader (including writing for audio purposes).
- Display correct application of referencing conventions, and an understanding of the importance of academic integrity values.
Degree list
The following degrees include this course