这门英语写作初学指南，全名叫A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study，是在FutureLearn平台上开设的。该平台是英国著名的MOOC网站，有很多课质量很高，体现着严谨的英伦气息。
本课能够帮助留学生在国外大学如何用英语完成学业，并提升自己的写作水平和遣词造句能力，1月19日开课，想提高写作的小伙伴们不要错过哦！
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Learn how to use English for study at university or college and develop your writing skills, vocabulary and grammar.
课程概况
If you’re interested in studying at university or college in an English-speaking country, you’ll need to learn how to write using academic English. Academic writing can be very different from other types of English writing you may have done in the past. We have developed this course to help you learn the basics of academic writing and develop your English skills for study in the UK, US, Australia or other countries where English is used.
This course will provide you with a brief introduction to academic writing, enabling you to gain an awareness and understanding of some key features of this kind of writing. You’ll learn using a mix of video, on-screen examples, discussions, and quizzes.
You will develop some proficiency in a few key areas of ‘academic’ grammar, learn about the stages in essay writing, and produce an essay of your own. We will teach you how to organise an essay, use academic writing style and cover key areas of grammar, so that by the end of the course you are able to write a good, basic academic essay.
Throughout the course, we will analyse some examples of academic writing that have been produced by some of our former students, to show the improvements that can be made to an essay. These improvements are made by guiding and instructing the writer in the areas of content, organisation, language and the process of planning and drafting an essay.
We will provide you with the tools to evaluate your own writing and the writing of others, as well as clarifying some key language areas commonly used in academic writing.
What’s in the course?
This course will run over five weeks, which will cover:
- Features of academic writing
- Essay organisation
- Your first essay: language focus
- Your first essay: focus on the writing stages
- Your first essay: feedback and redrafting
This course will also give you the opportunity to purchase aStatement of Participation.
先修要求
This course is aimed at non-English speakers who have studied some English. You should have a minimum level of IELTS 4.5 or equivalent.
FutureLearn
由英国公开大学于去年9月创办上线至今。用户可以网上注册选择学习FutureLearn的合作大学提供的课程，此外还可以反馈意见给网站。目前FutureLearn有26个合作院校和课程提供者，包括来自英国和其他国家的世界知名大学和英国文化协会、大英图书馆和大英博物馆等文化机构，并且已有来自165个国家的用户报名学习FutureLearn的课程。
