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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Academic Skills Centre |
| Credits: | 0 [equivalent to 0 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | See Director of Studies for further information |
| Level: | Non-credit (FHEQ level n/a) |
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| Assessment Summary: | Not applicable |
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| Description:
| 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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EL00717 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.Academic Skills Centre
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