Essential English Skills and English Proficiency Assessment
SUSS
About this course
This course aims to diagnose students’ English language abilities and skills and contains two English Proficiency Assessments (EPA) and a set of materials related to developing better listening, reading, and writing skills.
Once payment has been made, we seek your understanding that no refunds will be allowed.
Course Access Period
Please note that this is an online self-paced asynchronous course where learners will be granted 2 months of access from the enrolment date. To meet assessment requirements, learners must complete all assessments within 1 month (30 days) from the enrolment date. Failure to do so will result in not meeting assessment requirements.
Do also note that the course tile may take up to 48 hours to appear on the dashboard after purchase, access period will commence once the online self-paced asynchronous course is made accessible.
What you will learn
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Unit 1
- recognise the purpose of academic writing
- understand and identify the fundamental characteristics of academic writing
- draft assignments that display the fundamental characteristics of academic writing
- select and practise online material relevant to your needs
- Unit 2
- identify the basic components of a piece of academic writing
- recognise the need to plan a piece of academic writing
- apply appropriate methods for planning a piece of academic writing
- understand how to start a piece of academic writing and employ the appropriate procedure
- Unit 3
- recognise the need to consider the audience in academic writing
- recognise the need to consider the purpose of a piece of academic writing
- analyse a writing task to determine purpose
- understand how audience and purpose affect the choice of content in academic writing
- apply considerations of audience and purpose to present appropriate content in your writing
- select and practise online material relevant to your needs
- Unit 4
- identify and understand two common methods of organisation in academic writing: problem-solution and general- specific
- recognise the fundamental characteristics of organisation in academic writing
- organise and draft a piece of academic writing effectively
- select and practise online material relevant to your needs