Browse Hierarchy EAL4621: Principles of Academic Writing 1

This module is offered to students at levels 4,5,6,7 and responds to their linguistic and discipline specific needs in terms of writing. Students joining this module are already at IELTS level 6.5 /7. This equates to B2/C1 on the CEFR framework, and Queen Mary currently benchmarks this to level 5/6 on the NQF framework. The module content consists of written texts which students currently use in their degree programmes, and, while these texts change according to the disciplines of the class, include genres that students may be expected to deliver during their degree programmes, such as: research papers, academic articles, student essays, student exam answers, student dissertations and theses. The module is needs-driven, and the syllabus is therefore necessarily flexible. However, the basic syllabus is likely to include:Formal and Informal English as appropriate to the production of academic texts, Noun and Verb Usage/nominalisation, Paragraph Structure / coherence / rheme and theme analysis / cohesion and anaphora / substitution and ellipsis / conjunction, Punctuation, Paraphrasing and summarising / synthesising sources to create valid arguments leading to conclusions and opinions / introduction to the concept of the writer's voice in texts, Relative and participle clauses - Facts and hypotheses - Mood, Voice, Tense and Aspect.