Academic Writing Day, Referencing and Using your Reading in your Writing; Open to All Birkbeck Students
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
The community of Birkbeck Learning Development Tutors is collaborating to offer a day of lectures and workshops on the skills and awareness students require to avoid the trap of plagiarism by understanding the need for referencing and what it involves. The skill sets covered include
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Critical reading
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Searching for academic sources online
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Making strategic notes
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Knowing how to integrate the fruits of reading into your writing by understanding the elements of referencing
The community of Birkbeck Learning Development Tutors hopes that this initiative will help students to feel more confident about writing in a scholarly, analytical way and will make a welcome contribution to the efforts being pursued across the College to promote good academic practice among students at every level.
The Academic Writing Day will take place on Saturday 25 February in the Main Birkbeck Building with lectures and workshops being offered from 10am to 12.30pm and from 1 to 3.30pm. The Academic Writing Day is open to all Birkbeck students. For further details of each event and to make a booking online, please click on this link and make a separate booking for each lecture, or workshop you wish to attend:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=GLOBAL&viewday=2017_1_25
Contact name:
Dr Fleur Rothschild
Contact phone:
2030738411