Overview
Aim
To enable learners to develop the skills needed to read critically academic texts, extract and organise useful information from them and make use of that information in their own academic writing.
Unit Learning Outcomes
1
Be able to apply critical reading skills to academic texts.
Assessment Criteria
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1.1
Summarise key arguments and supporting evidence, referencing sources where appropriate, in academic texts of different types.
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1.2
Distinguish between fact and opinion and recognise bias in different academic texts.
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1.3
Decode different types of information in texts, such as statistics, and information presented in different formats, e.g. graphs or charts.
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1.4
Compare and contrast different writing styles, with reference to their purpose and context.
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1.5
Compare and contrast approaches to the same topic in different texts.
2
Be able to extract and organise information from academic texts.
Assessment Criteria
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2.1
Select relevant information from academic texts for different purposes.
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2.2
Organise information taken from multiple academic texts, making connections between ideas and opinions from different sources.
3
Be able to use information from academic texts in own academic writing.
Assessment Criteria
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3.1
Summarise information from different academic texts to present main points of view or key information about a topic in a piece of academic writing.
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3.2
Use selected information from different academic texts to develop and support own argument in a piece of academic writing.
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3.3
Use recognised conventions for quoting from and providing references to source texts in own academic writing.
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3.4
Paraphrase academic texts sufficiently to avoid plagiarism in own academic writing.