Handbook

Listen and take notes in a variety of academic settings;

Engage in spoken discussions;

Develop efficient reading techniques;

Locate and scrutinise sources;

Display an understanding of written assessment tasks and complete an outline or plan for a task;

Report the views of other scholars, including the use of various referencing systems: Harvard, APA and Oxford;

Paraphrase and incorporate others' ideas appropriately;

Evaluate the views of other scholars by the following means: use of reporting verbs, summarising and evaluating, comparing and contrasting competing positions, indicating authorial stance, agreeing and disagreeing with published sources;

Build an academic argument through clear argument structure, topic placement and framing of key issues;

Recognise key features of Western scholarship, e.g. individuality, ownership of ideas;

Recognise cross-cultural perspectives on academic learning;

Practise effective proof-reading, editing, summarising and revision techniques;

Develop an understanding of the differences between written academic prose and spoken or colloquial English.