Academic English Reading and Writing

Issued on 27 Feb 2026 by

University College Cork - OVPTL

Expires: 27 Feb 2029

This course will help international students at university whose first language is not English to develop their academic reading and writing skills. In particular, they will improve their ability to improve their ability to identify certain aspects of how academic language and skills are used to create meaning. The aim is to give students the tool to be able to navigate academic texts and breakdown different elements both micro and macro to enable to both read and writing more effectively. Areas include the skills of skimming and scanning, developing academic style, using language to create cohesion and coherence and identifying the differences between descriptive, analytical and evaluative language. At the end of the course, the students will be asked to complete a reflective assessment where they will be demonstrating their awareness of the areas focused on throughout the course. This will be in the form of a text analysis.

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Issuer

University College Cork - OVPTL

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University College Cork (UCC) is a leading global university based in Cork City, Ireland. The Office of the Vice-President for Teaching & Learning at UCC promotes and supports excellence in teaching and to increase the quality of education at UCC.

Criteria

Academic Reading: • Be able to identify the required reading skill for different purposes • Be able to identify how texts are structured and the language used to create structure • Be able to identify how sources are synthesised and integrated into texts • Be able to read critically by asking appropriate questions

Academic Writing: • Be able to identify academic style and understand the effects it has on the reader • Be able to identify language that creates cohesion and coherence • Be able to identify how language is used to synthesise and integrate sources • Be able to identify the differences between descriptive, analytical and evaluative language
• Be able to identify and amend issues of plagiarism