IL1PAPGUN-Academic Practices and Genres Undergraduate

Module Provider: International Study and Language Institute
Number of credits: 0 [0 ECTS credits]
Level:4
Terms in which taught: Summer term module
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Current from: 2023/4

Module Convenor: Mr Daniel Devane
Email: d.devane@reading.ac.uk

Module Co-convenor: Miss Victoria Collins
Email: v.collins@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

Taught in Summer vacation.

As a final - or 'exit' - component of the Pre-sessional English Language Programme (PSE), this module aims to enhance students’ ability to successfully engage with assessed coursework on UK undergraduate degree programmes.

Students will develop understanding of genre expectations and associated academic values, practices and processes, e.g. academic integrity, planning and reading-to-write.Ìý The module will also develop students’ ability to process and apply academic concepts and arguments to analysis of a real-world case or example. Self-awareness and reflection are also integral features of the module.ÌýÌý

Aims:

This module aimsÌýtoÌýenhanceÌýstudents’Ìýability to successfullyÌýengageÌýwithÌýassessed courseworkÌýon UK undergraduate degree programmes through awareness of academic values, expectations (including genre awareness) and associated practices and processes e.g.Ìýacademic integrity,Ìýplanning and reading-to-write.

Assessable learning outcomes:

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

• Identify ideas and arguments from academic sources to critically evaluate a real world example or ‘case’.


• Applying a given criteria for analysing a real world example or ‘case’


• Use genre-appropriate organisational and linguistic features to complete a written academic Case Study


• Drawing on a range of oracy skills, deliver an individual oral presentation reflecting on
  
  
  
  • own academic practices and implications for future learning
  
  
  • an aspect of learning from the module and its implications for and applications to their degree programme study.
  
  
  
  


• Use appropriate listening and mediation skills to discuss information from video interviews with ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø academics within an individual oral presentation.


• Ask and respond appropriately to questions about specific points following a presentation


• Attribute sources accurately within texts they produce using appropriate in-text and end-of-text citation methods

Additional outcomes:

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

• Recognise what academic integrity is and the steps to engage with this


• Appreciate disciplinary differences in citation practices


• Exercise autonomy and initiative in time management


• Use a variety of strategies and resources for the purpose of independent language study


• Become a confident user of the university’s VLE [Blackboard], submission and assessment tools e.g. Feedback Studio, and other learning technologies e.g. Office 365


• Reflect on the skills and language needed to continue developing and understand how to use tutor feedback to identify areas for improvement

Outline content:

The module will help students to acquire the skills and knowledge to engage effectively with tasks common to UK postgraduate degree programmes by:

• Raising students' awareness of the range of coursework genres used for assessment on UK university degree programmes, their social/communicative purposes and related structural and linguistic features.Ìý


• AnalysingÌý the purpose, stages and features ofÌý keyÌý genresÌý throughsamples by proficient speakers/writers.


• Selecting appropriate articles from a reading list


• Producing sections of the tasks with guided supported practice i.e. improving the response through tutor feedback on draft work


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