Resources designed to support postgraduate level academic writing skills: Writing a First Year Report independent study course, and Writing Up Qualitative Research independent study course. Writing a first year report This independent study course for first year research students may help you prepare for writing a first year report. It covers: the introduction literature review objectives report on progress future plans references Please download the pack at the English Language Education study materials webpage (please scroll down the page to find it): Writing up a first year report Writing up qualitative research This independent self study pack is aimed at Postgraduate Researchers working on a qualitative thesis who have completed their data collection and analysis and are at the stage of writing up. Note: this self-study pack was written in 2013 so is not an expecially up-to-date resource, but it may still contain helpful general information. The units available for download are: Writing up: course introduction (PDF - 3 pages) Unit 1: structure and introduction (PDF - 13 pages) Unit 2: literature review (PDF - 15 pages) Unit 3: methodology (PDF - 9 pages) Unit 4: data chapters (PDF - 17 pages) Unit 5: the final chapter (PDF - 19 pages) Unit 6: the first few pages (PDF - 9 pages) Independent study notes (PDF - 11 pages)