IFP6000 - English Language and Study Skills - 2024/25

This core module provides you with an understanding of UK academic culture, and helps you develop the linguistic, analytic and argumentative skills, in both written and spoken work, necessary to succeed on a postgraduate degree programme. It will help you produce linguistically sophisticated work, including under exam conditions (both online or F2F), which demonstrates a clear line of argumentation. You will be expected to plan and negotiate your study time appropriately. Independent study in preparation for seminar (SGS) activities, and working in independent study groups is expected. You will be encouraged to employ strategies to reflect on your writing styles. In small group sessions and tutorials; you will externalise your critical thinking skills as well as in your written work. You will demonstrate understanding of how to use our regular formative feedback on academic text to improve your learning outcomes. You will also demonstrate clear understanding of how to used feedback to improve your academic language skills in English.