Richard Bailey

Academic Language and Skills for Accountants Semester 2

Dear PGR students,

This is the Moodle for the Academic Writing for PGR students sessions which is part of your researcher development workshops programme.

Classes are Wednesdays 11.00am to 12.30 pm in Room D1 36

I will up-load the PPTs from the workshop sessions each week

Best wishes

Richard Bailey 

Dear PGR  Student

Welcome to your PGR English for Academic Purposes/Academic Writing course, February-March 2019

Introduction to Academic Writing. In this session we review the qualities which characterise academic writing. We consider basic sentence structure in English and how we compose simple, compound and complex sentences. We consider common errors in students' writing at this level, such as subject-verb agreements and fragments and how these may occur. We review the importance of clear meaning in composing complex sentences: in particular the use of relative pronouns/relative clauses. We consider issues around style and register and what is acceptable and advisable in student academic writing. Students should complete the writing  tasks and exercises to practise their writing skills