English Focus on Writing - Non-native PhD and Postdoc, MPhil by Research students from the Department of Engineering

This course is intended for non-native speakers who wish to improve their skills in writing dissertations, research papers and reports.

• Non-native PhD and Postdoc, MPhil by Research students from the Department of Engineering
• Further details regarding Engineering Language Unit's eligibility criteria are available

• Participants must be a Non-native speaker

• Discourse structure and formats of a research paper
• Language work to support your academic writing
• Editing and summarising texts including the avoidance of redundant vocabulary and phrases
• Appropriate punctuation
• Appropriacy of style and register (levels of formality)
• Referencing, graphs and figures

To improve in written texts:

• Clarity
• Cohesion
• Comprehensibility

Class work and individual study

Course syllabus is available

Six sessions of two hours

Yearly

• CLIC: Speaking skills: Fluency and Appropriacy
• CLIC: Speaking skills: Practising your presentations in English
• CLIC: Speaking skills: Pronunciation Skills
• English: Writing: The Basics of Writing: Your Strategy
• English Focus on Writing 3 - Session 7 (Nonnative Postdoc, PhD and MPhil by Research Engineering ONLY)
• English: Writing Skills Two week intensive (PhD Engineering ONLY)
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Preparing Successful Poster Presentations
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Presenting your Results and Findings
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - What makes a good Abstract and Title?
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Working on the Discussion and Conclusions Sections
• English: Grammar for Speaking & Writing: Articles
• English: Cultural Awareness
• CLIC: Cultural skills: Living in Britain