Programme & Unit Catalogues

EL10271: Critical reading

Academic Year:	2017/8
Owning Department/School:	Academic Skills Centre
Credits:	3 [equivalent to 6 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours:	60
Level:	Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:	Semester 1
Assessment Summary:	CW 100%
Assessment Detail:	EU10442 Assignments (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:	Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
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.
Programme availability:	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. Academic Skills Centre UXXX-AFN96 : Catalogue of Academic Skills Centre Units UXXX-AFN99 : Generally available catalogue

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EL10271: Critical reading

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.