CourseBM401

Week16 of 16

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This week’s topics

Final evaluation and project assessment

What you will be able to do

Coursework (LO1–LO3, 2,250 words) + Presentation (LO4, 10 minutes, 750 words equivalent) · covers LO1–LO4, all assessment criteria

Study materials

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Course plan

Week 1: What academic research and writing is: seeking the truth an…
Week 2: Academic writing conventions: academic language, paragraphs…
Week 3: Paraphrasing, summarising and writing to a word count
Week 4: Types of research (descriptive, associational, intervention…
Week 5: Sources of information and evidence: journals, textbooks, c…
Week 6: The research process: primary and secondary research
Week 7: What critical thinking is: a systematic way to evaluate arg…
Week 8: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Critical thinking skills: critical reading, analysis, inter…
Week 10: Why critical thinking matters in research: creativity, lang…
Week 11: Evaluating an argument: coherence, testing the evidence and…
Week 12: What makes a reliable academic argument: evidence, premise …
Week 13: Inductive and deductive reasoning
Week 14: Building a logical argument structure for a given topic
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment

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