ACADEMIC WRITING MASTERCLASS (ONLINE)

Description

Excellent academic writing skills are invaluable for students and academics. As undergraduates, students are asked to write essays,  seminars and laboratory and project reports. To transition to postgraduate studies, they must know how to write personal statements, etc. Writing is even more intricate at the postgraduate level as students are expected to write research (and review) papers and publish these.
All writing tasks are guided by established conventions of good writing. However, there are additional style rules that are specific to academic writing.

This course is one of the most in-depth courses you will find on academic writing. It covers the basic, intermediate and advanced requirements of good academic writing.

This course is split thus:

DAY 1

• Review of basic grammar (and common mistakes to avoid)
• Elements and principles of effective writing
• Mechanics of writing
• Decluttering your writing (Journal space is at a premium!)
• Paragraphs and Parallelism

**Practice & Exercise**

• Nominalisation
• Formality
• Precision
• Hedging and accuracy
• Active and passive voice use in academic writing

DAY 2

• Before you write

• Write your first draft
• Edit (6 key points)
• Proofread
• Use of software in academia
• Plagiarism

**Writing practice exercise**

• Tips on how to write an impressive, A-worthy project thesis, chapter by chapter
• Tips on writing an impressive, A-worthy seminar
• Tips on how to effectively assess academic manuscripts
• Tips on writing good research publications

THIS CLASS IS PACKED. You don’t want to miss this!