• Level 5
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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This course focuses on the key principles of academic writing. You will learn a variety of techniques for drafting, revising and editing academic content. While this course focuses on essay writing, the skills you learn will be useful for a variety of academic and professional writing tasks.

Topics covered include:

  • academic writing style
  • writing structured paragraphs
  • interpreting assignment topics
  • constructing logical arguments
  • editing and proofreading.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are needed for this course.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.

How to apply