Language and Academic Skills Workshops
Spring Session 2008
Wollongong Campus:
Workshops for University students
Learning Resource Centre, Building 19, Room G102
Workshops to be held from 12.30pm-1.30pm
Students can find additional learning resources at the
Learning Resource Centre (LRC) Building 19.G102
You can download the Wollongong - Spring 2008 Workshops Timetable from here (pdf 32kb)
Study Skills
1 meeting - 19.G005
Tuesday: July 22
This workshop will focus on successfully managing the tasks of preparing research, reading, writing, and getting assessments in on due dates to help to successfully deal with your academic workload. Students are asked to bring current subject guides to class.
Presentations
2 meetings - 19.G015
Thursdays: July 24 & 31
This workshop helps you plan and practise delivering university class presentations. While receiving constructive criticism on your material and delivery, you will also be practising how to give helpful comments to other students.
Reading Strategies
2 meetings - 19.G015
Wednesdays: July 23 & 30
This workshop helps you identify essential information and take useful notes. As students are often asked to critically evaluate and analyse texts they are required to read for essays, literature reviews or reports, this workshop will help you to develop a critical perspective while reading source material.
Effective Referencing
(First workshop) 2 meetings - 19.1004
(Repeat) 2 meetings - 19.1084
Wednesdays: August 6 & 13
Fridays: August 29 & September 5
When should you use direct or indirect quotations? Where is it appropriate to summarise or paraphrase? What is plagiarism? How can you avoid it? This workshop provides answers to these questions and will help you develop and practise strategies to effectively use referencing in academic writing.
Essay Writing A: Structure of the Essay
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(First workshop) 2 meetings - 19.G016
(Repeat) 2 meetings - 19.G002
Fridays: July 25 & August 1
or Tuesdays: September 4 & 11
This workshop will introduce the basic principles of academic essay writing. We will look at how to analyse the question, strategies for researching the topic, and the use of the essay structure to produce a well-argued and well-referenced essay. Please bring examples of your own essay questions and plans for your next essay.
Essay Writing B: Developing a Critical Argument
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(First workshop) 2 meetings - 19.G002
(Repeat) 2 meetings - 19.1004
Thursdays: August 7 & 14
Thursdays: September 18 & 25
This workshop is for students with some experience of essay writing who would like to develop their skills further. There will be a brief review of the principles of essay writing, with a focus on using evidence and research to strengthen your argument and provide a focused and critical response to the essay question. Please bring samples of your writing or questions.
Academic Vocabulary
1 meeting - 19.G015
Monday: August 18
This workshop showcases resources and strategies to help you develop the general and specialist vocabularies you need in tertiary studies. This workshop includes an online blog.
Advanced Conversation
4 meetings - 19.1083
Wednesdays: August 20, 27, & September 3, 10,
In response to demand from international students for opportunities to explore topical issues while refining English language proficiency, this workshop aims to engage participants in friendly and exciting discussion on a range of topical academic issues.
Online Communication
2 meetings - 17.104
Tuesday: July 22 & 29
Learn about the writing online protocols (eg, emails and blogs) at university so you can communicate efficiently and politely with academics and fellow students.
Pronunciation
2 meetings - 19.G005
Mondays: July 21 & 28
A fun approach to pronunciation will be adopted in this workshop, while students are encouraged to work on their intonation, word and sentence stress, and individuals sounds in English. Attention is given to difficulties experienced by individual students, and useful strategies for self-improvement explored.
Grammar
2 meetings - 19.G015
Mondays: August 4 & 11
This workshop focuses on the grammar of academic language. Activities aim to help you see the main differences between spoken and written language. This workshop is enhanced by an online blog.
Report Writing
2 meetings - 19.1038
Fridays: August 8 & 15
This workshop helps you identify the writing style, structure and referencing techniques of academic reports and case studies. We focus on developing a logical & critical argument in the structure of the report.
Exam Preparation
(First workshop) 1 meeting - 19.1083
(Repeat) 1 meeting - 19.1017
Thursday: August 21
Thursday: October 16
This workshop is designed to alert you to the types of exams you will encounter, show you where to find past papers and how to manage you study time effectively.
Learning Development offers online student resources at http://www.uow.edu.au/student/services/ld/
or ring the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) for
individual consultations on 02 4221 3977
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