Engineering Language Unit 2012-13

This course is intended for non-native speakers who wish to improve their skills in giving presentations in English.

This is one in a series of five Scientific Writing Skills Workshops tailored to the needs of the PhD/PostDoc Engineering student.

• Working on the Discussions and Conclusions Sections (see topics covered section for more details)

The following workshops are also available:

• Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• Presenting your results and findings
• What makes a good abstract and title?
• Preparing successful poster presentations

Two Cultural Awareness Workshops

Writing Stage - Developing Essay Patterns. Each of your chapters/sections of work focuses on different topics. How do you signify these differences in your work? In this session we look at the variety of ways you can organise your work, specifically, comparison/contrast; specific to general; general to specific; problem and solution; and listing. We will be looking at a mixture of texts for illustrative and evaluative purposes.

This course is intended for non-native speakers who wish to improve their skills in giving presentations in English.

Writing Stage - The Use of the Article in Academic Writing. Here we revise some common areas of confusion and difficulty, and aim to improve awareness of some more complex uses of the definite, indefinite and zero articles.

This course is intended for non-native speakers who wish to improve their skills in giving presentations in English.

This is one in a series of five Scientific Writing Skills Workshops tailored to the needs of the PhD/PostDoc Engineering student.

• What makes a good abstract and title? (see topics covered section for more details)

The following workshops are also available:

• Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• Presenting your results and findings
• Working on the Discussions and Conclusions Sections
• Preparing successful poster presentations

This course is intended for non-native speaker graduate students of Engineering who wish to improve their skills in writing dissertations, research papers and reports.

• The first hour of each session is teacher input and any areas arising from students’ needs
• The second hour of each session will be individual supervisions of work sent in to the teacher and there will be a sign-up sheet each week
• Please note that any text for marking and discussion needs to have been marked by the teacher prior to individual supervisions. This is to enable the effective use of students’ time allocation

Post-Writing Stage-Editing your work for Style. This is a very important stage in your writing and is often given less time than the Writing Stage. Here we examine ways to edit your work for style including redundant language (i.e. unnecessary words or sentences), appropriate vocabulary, lengthy sentences, etc. This is a good opportunity for you to practice the skills of editing by drawing on published examples of text. You are also welcome to bring along your own work for peer-editing.

This course is intended for non-native speakers who wish to improve their skills in giving presentations in English.

This course is intended for non-native speaker graduate students of Engineering who wish to improve their skills in writing dissertations, research papers and reports.

• The first hour of each session is teacher input and any areas arising from students’ needs
• The second hour of each session will be individual supervisions of work sent in to the teacher and there will be a sign-up sheet each week
• Please note that any text for marking and discussion needs to have been marked by the teacher prior to individual supervisions. This is to enable the effective use of students’ time allocation

Post-Writing Stage-Proofreading and Peer Review. This is the last step in the Post-Writing Stage so we look at aspects such as format, typography, spelling and punctuation. In addition you, as an author/peer-reviewer, may like to give/receive feedback to regarding content and organisation; grammatical accuracy and overall style. You are welcome to bring some of your own work along for this session.

This course is intended for non-native speakers who wish to improve their skills in giving presentations in English.

This course is intended for non-native speaker graduate students of Engineering who wish to improve their skills in writing dissertations, research papers and reports.

• The first hour of each session is teacher input and any areas arising from students’ needs
• The second hour of each session will be individual supervisions of work sent in to the teacher and there will be a sign-up sheet each week
• Please note that any text for marking and discussion needs to have been marked by the teacher prior to individual supervisions. This is to enable the effective use of students’ time allocation

Introductory course to French. This course is for those with no previous knowledge of French. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.

Introductory course to French. This course is for those with no previous knowledge of French. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.

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This course is for those with high GCSE or AS/A level French or equivalent. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.

This course is intended for non-native speaker graduate students of Engineering who wish to improve their skills in writing dissertations, research papers and reports.

• The first hour of each session is teacher input and any areas arising from students’ needs
• The second hour of each session will be individual supervisions of work sent in to the teacher and there will be a sign-up sheet each week
• Please note that any text for marking and discussion needs to have been marked by the teacher prior to individual supervisions. This is to enable the effective use of students’ time allocation

Fun introductory course to Spanish. This course is for those with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.

Fun introductory course to Spanish. This course is for those with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.

This course is for those with high GCSE or AS/A level French or equivalent. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.

Introductory course to French. This course is for those with no previous knowledge of French. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.