Critical Reading and writing workshop

Learning Goals

This weeks tutorial is designed to equip you with the following:

1. Read, and write academically so that you can research the essay and be equipped with the skills to manage future assessment tasks throughout your undergraduate career.

2. Take effective notes whilst reading journal articles or websites which will allow you to capture opposing arguments or information to inform your own arguments in an essay or assessment item.

3. Better construct your response to the essay, drawing upon strengths and weaknesses identified in an anonymous essay previously submitted to the course.

preparation instructions

This weeks preparation will be shorter than other tutorials, and could be approximately half a page. This week we will ask you to explain what you consider are good reading, writing, note taking skills as part of the researching process in preparation for your essay, while the second hour will be spent discussing a previously submitted essay to help your prepare for your essay due later in the semester. This tutorial is designed to help you gauge your progress for the essay, and equip you with (or enhance) skills to structure, and research your essay so as to best address the essay question.

This tutorial will be approximately 2 hours in length.

readings

1st Hour

Read these four links from your essay support section.

• Reading Skills
• Referencing
• Analytical writing
• Doing Research

2nd Hour

Read the first listed SRES1001 essay (Anonymous 2004) on Richard's webpage and mark it against your essay marking criteria

questions for your one page

1. After reading this material on your one page summary (1/2 page is fine!) provide a few dot points on what you consider to be good:

• reading skills;
• note taking strategies whilst reading/researching;
• writing skills.

2. Substantiate the grade you would give the 2004 essay, and come to the tutorial ready to discuss the grade you would give the anonymous 2004 essay and the above 3 points on what you think are good reading, note taking, and writing skills.