2. Assessing your academic
skills
• Understanding lectures in English (Key words)
• Take good notes
• Taking part in group work
• Giving presentations
• Reading academic tests (High value parts)
• Finding information to include in my own writing
(Reference lists)
• Writing essays (Read & Imitate)
• Summarising what I have read
• Learning academic vocabulary (passive→active)
4. • If you arrive late to a lecture, you shouldn’t enter
the room.
• If your mobile phone goes off in class, you should
go out of the room to answer it.
• If your lecturer says something you don’t
understand, you should ask them to explain.
5. • You will get all the information you need
yo pass exams in the course lectures, so
you only need to do extra reading if you
are aiming for excellent marks.
• Textbooks are written by experts so you
can accept what you read in them as true.
• If you are having difficulties writing an
essay, you should go to your tutor for
help.
6. • To help you understand what is needed
in academic writing, you should look at the
texts (e.g.Essays, dissertations) of past
students.
• You will get good marks for an essay if
you can show you support your tutor’s
opinion on the subject.
