Communicating Research in Education 2 module (AG11076)

Develop your awareness of academic writing and other key skills. This is done with keeping the goal of completing your dissertation in mind

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AG11076

You will learn essential skills in academic writing. These are a requirement for effective planning and writing your dissertation.

You will also explore and strengthen your understanding of what makes a high-quality dissertation.

You will also taking part in regular interactive activities to clarify your own research ideas.

What you will learn

In this module, you will:

develop reading skills and strategies
gain a critical awareness of text and text organisation
practise academic structure at sentence, paragraph and whole-text level
understand the importance of the key chapter and section aims in the dissertation
build your awareness of the main differences in writing styles. You will learn the difference between academic and general writing styles

By the end of the module you will be able to:

understand the aims of each chapter in the dissertation
use knowledge of research methods and academic writing to meet these chapter aims
be critical and reflective on their own, and others’, written work
produce a dissertation outline with associated timeline

This module does not have a final exam

weekly seminars