Academic Skills Foundation 2

Wedi cwblhau'r modiwl dylai'r myfyrwyr fedru:

1. 1. Work independently and in teams to plan and draft of a range of written and oral academic assignments.
2. 2. Identify and use differing structures, patterns of argument and language style for essays, online projects, seminars and presentations.
3. 3. Make appropriate use of citations, quotations, summarised and paraphrased ideas, referencing and bibliographies in own oral seminars and presentations, and in written multimedia documents.
4. 4. Deliver effective presentations and contribute effectively to seminar discussions.

Through a range of activities and assignments students will work towards the acquisition and refinement of the specific study skills needed for their chosen degree scheme. The module will include individual work, team work and self and peer review activities. The learning units support students to develop the skills needed for effective reading, critical review, participation in seminars, note taking, planning and time management, delivering presentations, project development and assignment-brief-targeted academic writing.

The themes covered in the module are set out below. Some components of the course (e.g. academic practice) may receive more extensive coverage than others, according to their importance and relevance to a given cohort of students.

Each week’s teaching will consist of one lecture to all students, plus smaller group seminars in which student teams engage in the development of online project material and associated planning and development work.

Students will be required to participate actively, engage in peer-review activities and appraise and evaluate their own learning strategies and progress. The topics covered include the following:

* Identifying personal and professional interests in subject areas for the identification of project teams and topics.
* Planning and writing project proposals.
* Reviewing online information for reliability, accuracy and comparable aspects of information design.
* Working with principles of teamwork, cooperative learning and group dynamics.
* Managing project groups and collaborative and cooperative units: collective workload, individual work packages, meetings, editing and finalising.
* Writing for the web: clarity, concision and user focus.
* Working with peer review of written work and constructive critical response.
* Identifying and applying differences between writing and speaking.
* Writing for a range of audiences.
* Identifying and following a through-line in collaborative, online information design.
* Identifying presentation structures, strategies and sharing of content delivery for team-managed oral presentations.
* Developing approaches to reflexive writing in an academic context.
* Building on essential aspects of good academic practice taught in Semester 1: identifying and practising key skills including citation, quotation, referencing, bibliographies, paraphrasing and summarising. In order to make this relevant to the range of disciplines involved in the foundation schemes, a comparative analysis will be included to look at uses of Harvard, APA, MLA, MHRA, IEEE and footnote/endnote systems, among others as required. Students will be encouraged to follow and access systems used by their departments.

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cydymffurfio a FfCChC Lefel 3