Mastering Academic Writing & Research
Series Description: These classes look at the components of academic writing and research in detail, allowing you to fine-tune your writing style. The classes explore writing at different levels, ranging from grammatical elements to the overarching structure of your work, giving you the necessary toolkit to excel in formal writing.
Target Audience: For those wanting to fine-tune their academic skills to an advanced level - especially useful for students preparing to write a dissertation.
This course runs in semester 2, with asynchronous materials available on Moodle.
> Moodle page for this series (includes slides and any recordings)
| Class | Class Description |
| Active Reading for Academic Writing | This class explores how to use active reading to develop thorough, critical academic research. |
| The Architecture of Writing: Building a Strong Process & Practice | This class helps you design a sustainable writing process by building structure, strategies, and habits that foster confidence and consistency in your work. |
| Thinking Through Things: How to Use Objects in Your Research | This class shows you how to research and write about objects—using their material qualities, histories, and meanings as evidence to enrich your research and generate fresh insights. |
| Finding Your Voice: Expressing Ideas with Authority | This class explores how to find and develop your academic voice in order to express ideas with clarity and authority, crafting writing that feels confident and compelling. |
| Editing Matters: Revising for Clarity and Confidence | This class focuses on practical editing strategies that strengthen your voice, sharpen your ideas, and make your work shine with clarity and rigour. |
