XENH0001 Academic Reading (3 cr)

On completion of the course, students are expected to:

• have developed academic literacies and strategies required for information management and evaluation (e.g. locating, critically assessing and using information; extensive and intensive reading)

• identify types of academic reporting and argumentation, as well as discipline specific conventions, concepts and terminology.

• discuss, summarise, synthesise, and formulate research information in their own words orally and in written form.

• direct, monitor, and assess their own and peer learning for the development of further skills and confidence.