Free postgraduate course: Postgraduate Writing and Advanced Information Skills (two semesters)
Overview: This is a programme of Wednesday afternoon seminars in postgraduate writing, combined with seminars in advanced library and research information skills. We send a reminder email to all students enrolled on the programme in advance of each session. You are welcome to attend any or all of the sessions.
Who the course is for: The course is open to all Masters, MPhil and PhD students, except MBA and MSc students from the School of Management and Business*.
It will be particularly relevant to students who have had a break between undergraduate and postgraduate studies and those who are unfamiliar with the requirements of postgraduate studies in a UK university context.
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
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for research students: All postgraduate research students are recommended to attain 30 Units of Training over the course of their PhD as part of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) process. Attendance at any one of the Postgraduate Writing and Advanced Information Skills sessions will count 1 Unit of Training towards your CPD. The requirements for Knowledge Economy Skills Scholars (KESS) are slightly different, and as part of your 60 credit Postgraduate Skills Development Award, each of these sessions will count for 2 credits. For further details on the CPD process please see http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/grad-school/res-skills-training/cpd
Enrol on the programme:
- Login to AberLearn Blackboard
- Click on the Study Skills tab
- In the Postgraduate Study Practices Programme box click Enrol Now
Any questions or comments, please email: study-skills@aber.ac.uk
Jointly facilitated by Student Support and Information Services.
| 10/10/12 | 14:00-15:20 | Biology Main, Edward Llwyd | Establishing focus with written assignments |
| 17/10/12 | 14:00-15:20 | Physics 320 |
Essays and reports: comparative structures |
| 24/10/12 | 14:00-15:00 | Biology Main, Edward Llwyd |
Research at home: working on and off campus |
| 31/10/12 | 14:00-15:20 | Biology Main, Edward Llwyd |
Creating a critical stance in a literature review |
| 07/11/12 | 14:00-15:00 | Biology Main, Edward Llwyd | Article searching with Primo |
| 14/11/12 | 14:00-15:20 | Biology Main, Edward Llwyd |
Introductions with impact |
| 21/11/12 | 14:00-15:00 | Biology Main, Edward Llwyd | Bibliographic referencing software |
| 28/11/12 | 14:00-15:20 | Biology Main, Edward Llwyd | Maintaining clarity and focus |
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| 13/02/13 | 14:00-15:20 | TBA |
Checkpoints in the writing process: editing and proofreading |
| 20/02/13 | 14:00-15:00 | TBA |
Keeping up to date in your subject of study |
| 27/02/13 | 14:00-15:20 | TBA |
Functional development of narrative structure |
| 6/03/13 | 14:00-15:00 | TBA |
CADAIR and open access |
| 13/03/13 | 14:00-15:20 | TBA |
Establishing aspects of voice |
| 20/03/13 | 14:00-15:20 | TBA |
Dissertation planning |
*MBA and MSc Management/Accounting students should register for a specific two semester postgraduate programme: Effective Communication in Management and Business.
Additional note: This programme works at the same level as postgraduate research training module PGM0120, offered by the Office of Postgraduate Studies, and some of the early sessions are repeated in both courses. A common progression for PGM0120 students is to join the programme in semester 2. For more details of PGM0120 see http://www.aber.ac.uk/postgrads/en/mod1.shtml