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Synchronous Training(please check the Events Calendar for current availability)
RIDA Writing Retreats Regular sessions on campus and online with the RIDA Team, to focus on a writing task of your choice. There is no ‘facilitation’ or specific feedback on your writing but we encourage you to set yourself writing targets and share progress with each other. RIDA Writing Retreats – Researcher and Innovator Development Academy
Academic English for Doctoral Students A module for students working independently on a research degree (eg. PhD). The focus will be on practising and developing the language and rhetoric to explain and present your research in both written and spoken formats. You can find more information on the Academic English page of the Essential Skills for Academic Success Portal.
Skills Centre: Advanced Critical Writing In this session you will have the opportunity to: (1) Generate and apply analysis questions to a range of evidence and source types. (2) Use reporting verbs to accurately introduce and frame evidence. (3) Reflect on the issues of relevance and significance when examining evidence.
Skills Centre: Critical Writing In this session, you will have an opportunity to: (1) Recognise what is meant by critical writing at University (2) Consider how to question what you read in a critical way (3) Identify features of both descriptive and critical writing in text examples. (4) Identify actions to improve your critical writing.
Skills Centre: Introduction to Academic Writing In this session, you will have an opportunity to: (1) Recognise the key features of academic writing (2) Understand academic voice (3) Refer appropriately to research (4) Know how to quote, paraphrase and summarise (5) Improve sentence and paragraph structure (6) Use effective signposting language.