Free postgraduate courses
Join us and develop your skills
The skills programme is open to all Postgraduate Aberystwyth University - Master's, MPhil and PhD - students free of charge. You can attend all or just some of the seminars.
Workshop teaching materials, including recordings, presentations, and helpful resources, can be accessed via the SgiliauAber/ AberSkills Blackboard Learn Ultra organisation.
Semester 2 2024 - English medium workshops
| Date | Time | Location | Subject | Details to join |
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| 14/02/2024 | 14:00-15:30 |
Online via Teams |
Writing 6: Checkpoints in the writing process: editing and proofreading |
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| 21/02/2024 | 14:00-15:30 |
Online via Teams |
Writing 7: Functional development of narrative structure |
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| 28/02/2024 | 14:00-15:30 |
Online via Teams |
Writing 8: Establishing aspects of voice 1 |
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| 06/03/2024 | 14:00-15:30 |
Online via Teams |
Writing 9: Establishing aspects of voice 2 |
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13/03/2024 |
14:00-15:30 |
Online via Teams |
Writing 10: Dissertation planning part 1 |
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20/03/2024 |
14:00-15:30 |
Online via Teams |
Writing 11: Dissertation planning part 2 |
Learning outcomes: On completion of the whole course it is expected that you will be able to:
- Analyse the requirements of a range of different postgraduate assignments
- Identify similarities and differences between the structural and stylistic requirements of different assignment formats (e.g. essays, reports, dissertations)
- Work with appropriate language styles and structural formats towards the wider context of communicating with a range of academic or professional audiences
- Work with a wider range of online information resources for research purposes
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