ELECTIVE SUBJECT
Unlock academic excellence, mastering research, writing, and presentation for scholarly success.
Academic Research and Writing will equip you with essential scholarly skills in quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and referencing. You will develop proficiency in academic research, including finding, evaluating, and critiquing sources for projects or papers. Enhance critical and creative writing abilities to synthesize ideas and themes and improve your oral and visual presentation skills. Assessments include demonstrating academic skills, completing a literature review, and delivering an individual presentation. The course covers scholarly principles, ethical considerations, research strategies, writing and editing, structuring literature reviews, and effective presentation techniques. Prepare yourself for future academic pathways!
Learning Outcomes
AQF5 | AQF7 |
| Apply scholarly principles of quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and referencing. | Employ scholarly principles of quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and referencing. |
| Locate and summarise relevant research in an area of personal interest, demonstrating proficiency in understanding the ideas of others. | Find, evaluate and critique relevant research for a project/paper demonstrating proficiency in academic research. |
| Demonstrate writing skills in a sustained synthesis of ideas and themes focused on an area of personal interest. | Demonstrate critical and creative academic writing skills in a sustained synthesis of ideas and themes focused on an academic project/paper. |
| Report on an area of personal interest using words and visuals. | present research, applying visual representation and oral presentation skills. |
Assessments
- Academic skill performance
- Literature review
- Individual presentation
Subject Content
- Scholarly principles, practices and tools
- Ethics
- Researching
- Organising research
- Writing and editing skills
- Literature review
- Presenting skills