Academic Language Webinars

'Academic language … is no one's mother tongue'

(Bourdieu and Passeron, 1994: 8).

AEP's Academic Language Webinars are designed to help you with the language needed in a range of academic communication contexts. Attendance counts towards the Training and Development component of your RED Award.

Webinar Schedule Summer 2024

Practical advice which can be directly applied in writing an assignment.

Masters student. Henley Business School.

I was looking for some guidance with citing texts in my literature review. And this webinar was just what I needed. I think I'm much better equipped now to write a better literature review.

PhD student. Politics, Economics and International Relations.

The exercises were dynamic and kept me interested in the session.

Post-doc researcher, Mathematical, Physical and Computational Science.

Excellent support for students at any stage of their university studies.

A master's student on the 'Writing Critically - a focus on language' webinar, Autumn 2020.

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To sign up for webinars, you need to enrol on the Academic English Programme Hub Blackboard Organisation

To request access to the AEP Hub, please complete this form. You will need to be signed into your University account.

Grammar
argue, argued, have argued - three important verb tenses in academic communication.
Writing successful sentences (1): Clause types
Writing successful sentences (2): Relative Clauses
Writing successful sentences (3): Punctuation
the or a or zero? - effective article use
Noun Phrases: the building blocks of academic texts
The passive - when to and when not to use it
may, might, can, could, should ... - An overview of modal verbs

Open Grammar (PDF, 167KB) for webinar descriptions and details.

Vocabulary
Improve your Academic Vocabulary (1): Growing your Academic Vocabulary size
Improve your Academic Vocabulary (2): Using an online English Dictionary
Collocations: Finding the right words as you write

Open Vocabulary (PDF, 135KB) for webinar descriptions and details.

Building Blocks of Writing
Writing critically - focus on language
Language for Academic Integrity (1): Avoiding plagiarism
Language for Academic Integrity (2): Language for citing and referencing sources
Language for Academic Integrity (3): Language for paraphrasing and summarising
Language for synthesising sources
Language for writing definitions
Language for flow and clarity: writing coherent and cohesive texts
Successfully editing and proofreading your written work

Open Building Blocks of Writing (PDF, 177KB) for webinar descriptions and details.

Writing Genres
Not Just Essays: Types of university writing - a genre overview
Language for Effective Essay Writing
Language for Reflective Writing
Language for Writing up Experiments
University emails - communicating appropriately and effectively

Open Writing Genres (PDF,133KB) for webinar descriptions and details.

Dissertation Writing
Dissertations: Language for The Literature Review (all disciplines)
Dissertations: Language for Methods (STEM & Social Sciences)
Dissertations: Language for Results (STEM)
Dissertations: Language for Results (Social Sciences)
Dissertations: Language for Discussion (all disciplines)

Open Dissertation Writing (PDF,134KB) for webinar descriptions and details.

N.B. You can sign up for these webinars if you are a third-year undergraduate student doing a final Dissertation, a master's student doing a Research Project or Dissertation, or a PhD student.

Eligibility:

This year, these courses are open to all international/EU University of Reading students from campuses in the UK and beyond (e.g. Malaysia and South Africa).

Academic Language Webinars

Building Blocks of Writing

Writing Genres

Dissertation Writing

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Academic Language Webinars

'Academic language … is no one's mother tongue'

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