Learning Development
Other Services
Language and Academic Skills Workshops
Autumn 2009
Wollongong Campus:
Workshops for University students
Learning Resource Centre, Building 19, Room G102
Workshops to be held from 12.30pm-1.30pm
(except for Grammar workshops - see below)
Students can find additional learning resources at the
Learning Resource Centre (LRC) Building 19.G102
You can download the
Wollongong - Autumn 2009 Workshops Timetable from here (PDF)
Study Skills
1 meeting 28.101LT
Monday: July 27
This workshop will focus how and when to successfully manage your university workload that involves the tasks of preparing research, reading, writing, and getting assessments completed by due dates.
Oral Presentations
2 meetings 28.101LT
Tuesdays: July 28 & August 4
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 67.101
Wednesdays: July 29 & August 5
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 67.303
Fridays: July 31 & August 7
(Repeat workshop) 2 meetings 28.101LT
Wednesdays: October 7 & October 14
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: Essay Writing
(First workshop) 2 meetings 67.101
Thursdays: July 30 & August 6
(Repeat) 2 meetings 28.101
Tuesdays: September 1 & September 8
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
(First workshop) 2 meetings 67.101
Thursdays: August 13 & August 20
(Repeat) 2 meetings 28.101
Tuesdays: September 15 & September 22
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 28.101LT
Monday: August 3
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.
Grammar
8 meetings 11.203
***Each meeting is scheduled from 9.30am-12.30pm
Fridays: August 14, 21, 28; September 4, 11, 18, 25; October 9
This substantial series of workshops focuses on how grammar relates to academic language. Consistent attendance will be required in order to gain the maximum benefit from these workshops. Activities are aimed to help you see the main differences between spoken and written language and gives you the opportunity to practice writing using English grammar in an academic context.
Report Writing
2 meetings 67.101
Wednesdays: August 12 & August 19
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 67.101
Wednesday: August 26
(Repeat) 1 meeting 67.101
Wednesday; October 21
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
EdStart 2010
EdStart provides grants for undergraduate domestic students at UOW. An EdStart grant is not a cash award. Students who are awarded EdStart will be given a $500 grant that they can use to purchase goods and services from the University of Wollongong and the UniShop. Apply online