Teaching and Assessing Academic Writing
Would you like to learn more about helping students improve their academic writing skills? What strategies are there and how can we as teachers become better mentors? And how do we teach and assess written assignments?
This course is aimed at
- Other teaching staff
- Teacher
Topic
- Communication
- Personal development
- Pedagogy
About the course
The aim of the course is to provide increased awareness of the writing process and increased ability to give specific and concrete feedback on student texts. You will learn about a number of tools and approaches to help students understand the process of academic writing, as well as some theoretical underpinnings that can help teachers and supervisors guide students in their development process.
The course is for teachers who supervise students writing academic texts, supervisors of theses and those who want to learn more about the academic writing process. The course will be given in English.
Format
We will meet on campus Ångström Laboratory for a total of two days. There is also a few assignments and an article to read before the course starts, corresponding to half a day.
Course dates
- 2024-04-10 9.00-12.00
- 2024-04-11 9.00-16.00
- 2024-04-12 9.00-12.00
Register
Sign up by sending a mail to pia.westerlund@uu.se no later than Mars 18, 2024. Participants will receive certificates upon completion of the course.