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Unit Summary
Unit aim
This discipline unit provides students with opportunities to build personal literacy, as well as the knowledge and skills to apply this in professional settings. Content topics will cover: literacy, professional literacy, and academic literacy.
Unit content
Topic 1: Being a Successful Student
Topic 2: Literacy for All
Topic 3: The Literacy Demands of the 21st Century
Topic 4: Professional Literacy – Reading and Viewing
Topic 5: Professional Literacy – Writing
Topic 6: Professional Literacy – Speaking
Topic 7: Academic Literacy – Reading
Topic 8: Academic Literacy – Academic Referencing
Topic 9: Academic Literacy – Writing Paragraphs and Essays
Topic 10: Academic Literacy – Revision and Examination Preparation
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate personal literacy competence to the high standard required for professional practice |
| 2 | analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features |
| 3 | create a range of texts for a professional context |
| 4 | compose short responses displaying academic writing principles. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate personal literacy competence to the high standard required for professional practice
- analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features
- create a range of texts for a professional context
- compose short responses displaying academic writing principles.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed texts.