Academic Writing & Presenting in English for Researchers and University Staff
What is the course about?
This hands-on, practical one week course covers the language needed for presentations, talks and lectures, and deals with the delivery skills required in order to maximise the effectiveness of the presentations. It also introduces language for Academic Writing, focusing on vocabulary, grammar, formality, register, and style. Areas of Academic Writing tackled are Abstracts and Articles/Papers, with critical analysis of model abstracts.
Participants work up to a presentation delivery by the end of the week, with feedback on both language and performance.
Participants own writing skills are developed through feedback on their own writing, and a Language Clinic to tackle errors and develop a wider range of vocabulary and structures.
Frequently Asked Questions
After registration, participants on this course programme will receive:
- a pre-course questionnaire which will enable trainers to learn about the participants’ backgrounds
- a recommended reading list to prepare participants for various aspects of the course
- information about York to prepare participants for their cultural experience.
At the end of the course, you will:
- be able to deliver better presentations, with accompanying language framework
- have an increased awareness of ways of making presentations more effective in delivery
- be able to reflect on their own writing of abstracts, and analyse it with reference to models of good and bad abstracts
- have experienced writing practice with regard to writing academic articles, with the aim of increasing vocabulary range, structures and register and style as well as ability to teach writing skills
- have further developed participants’ own general language skills and increase oral fluency
- have experienced the cultural heritage of York with its rich historical linguistic environment
If you are from a country outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, you will need a visa. Students from certain countries do not need to apply for a visa before arriving in the UK. You can check if you need to apply for a visa on the UK Visas and Immigration website.
In the unlikely event of a course not recruiting sufficient numbers you would be offered an alternative.
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Start date(s)
- February 24, 2020
- March 2, 2020
- August 24, 2020
- August 31, 2020
- October 5, 2020
- March 1, 2021
- March 8, 2021
- August 23, 2021
- August 30, 2021
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Sample Course Programme
| Session One | Session Two | Session Three | Session Four | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONDAY | Introductions Getting to Know You ICT Tools for Language Translation | Giving Lectures What makes a good presentation? | Introductions to Presentations Language Frameworks (2) | Individual Presentations Practice for Review |
| TUESDAY | Language Frameworks (2) Signposting Dealing with Questions | Language for Academic Writing (1) | Preparation of content slides for presentations | Individual Presentations Practice for Review |
| WEDNESDAY | Language for Academic Writing (2) | Writing an Abstract Register, Formality etc Critical analysis of model abstracts: Good/Bad? | Language Clinic Review: Writing & Presentations | Individual Writing Practice for Review |
| THURSDAY | Writing Articles Formality, Register & Style, including the passive voice | From Written to Verbal Differences between written language and spoken language | Language for Academic Writing (3) | Individual Writing Practice for Review |
| FRIDAY | The use of visual aids and tables | Editing and proofreading | Individual presentations with feedback | Personal Development Action Plan |
