Personal and Academic Skills for Success
Overview
- Credit value: 15 credits at Level 4
- Convenor: Dr Chunjia Han
- Tutors: to be confirmed
- Assessment: a 2000-word individual report/essay (100%)
Module description
This module will help you to:
- understand the nature of studying at undergraduate level
- achieve the appropriate levels of academic writing and numeracy for first-year modules
- recognise and develop transferable skills for enhancing graduate employability
- start developing good practice in study, as well as continuing professional development.
Indicative syllabus
Essay writing, including:
- critical thinking and argumentation
- constructing arguments; research skills; Birkbeck resources for effective studying; basic research skills (i.e. reading and literature research)
- interpreting an essay question; developing an essay plan; researching the topic; academic writing conventions
- Harvard referencing and plagiarism; using research materials to develop an argument.