Academic writing
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 (secured)
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.
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)