English Prep · Advanced
Critical Reading and Research Skills
EPY303 — Core — Semester
EPY303 — Core — Semester
Prepares learners to work with academic sources: finding and evaluating sources, critical reading, making notes from several texts and completing a short guided research project.
To develop the critical reading and research skills needed for higher education.
| Week | Topic & Activity |
|---|---|
| 1 | Finding sources Search the digital library and academic databases. Library workshop. |
| 4 | Evaluating sources Judge the reliability and relevance of sources. Task: Source evaluation. |
| 7 | Critical reading Identify claims, evidence and assumptions. Seminar: Reading critically. |
| 10 | Research project Plan a short research project. Tutorial: Project planning. |
| Final exam week | Project submission Submit and present the research project. Assessment. |
Continuous assessment: weekly class tasks and a learning portfolio, a midterm progress check during the teaching weeks and an end-of-module assessment in the final exam week (a written task and, where relevant, a speaking assessment). Results are reported as Pass, Merit or Distinction, with the CEFR level reached in each skill.