Get Ahead, Stay Ahead: Style - Academic writing conventions
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Online
Get Ahead, Stay Ahead is a series of eight presessional study skills and writing workshops, designed to help you prepare for university before the beginning of term. Each 2 hour session consists of an hour-long lecture/workshop with activities, a 15-minute practice activity and a 45 minute 'skills clinic' for questions and discussion.
This online workshop will discuss the academic conventions of formality, objective tone, cautious language and ways to avoid saying ‘I’ in your assignments.
How can I sound more appropriately academic? Why can’t I say ‘I’ or state my opinions? What is cautious ‘hedging’ language? This online workshop will cover the academic conventions of formality, neutral tone, cautious language and ways to avoid saying ‘I’, including ways to express objectivity.
This online workshop will take place on a Blackboard Collaborate link within the Birkbeck Study Skills Moodle Module. If you have booked, you will be emailed another link as a reminder to your registered email address. (But please remember to check your junk mail.)
This workshop will repeat on Tuesday 8th, Saturday 12th and Monday 14th September.
Please note these workshops are intended for Birkbeck College students only.
Please also note the full series of eight workshops is as follows:
Study skills:
1) Studying at home and time management
2) Reading, lectures and note-taking
3) Critical thinking and writing
4) Take-home exams and revision
Writing skills:
5) Essay and assignment writing
6) Style: Academic writing style
7) Structure: paragraphs and signposting language
8) Grammar: Sentences and punctuation
Contact name: Sal Campbell
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