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2014/5 |
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Academic Skills Centre |
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Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
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Semester 1 |
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CW 100% |
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Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
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Aims: To enable students to raise the standard of their degree course work through reading academic texts more effectively and critically. Learning Outcomes: Having completed this unit students will be better able to: * evaluate texts critically; * understand academic written texts; * read more quickly and efficiently; * take notes from academic written texts . Skills: Having completed this unit students will be better able to: * Approach new reading material with confidence. Content: * Prediction * Skimming and scanning * Reading for gist * Improving reading efficiency * Note-taking from academic written texts * Understanding the writer's intention * Understanding the meaning of a text * Distinguishing fact from opinion * Evaluating an academic text critically. |
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EL10271 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.English Language Centre
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