List of topics covered:
• Academic writing and its conventions
• Linguistic features of academic writing in English
• Aspects of reading for academic writing
• Exploiting basic corpus techniques to explore academic language
• Compiling a corpus representative of academic language use
• Developing arguments
• Structure of abstracts
• Use of English in academic writing for educational research
• Structuring oral presentations
• Using effective linking phrases during oral presentations
• Make effective use of presenting software such as PowerPoint