Postgraduate Students

Short Courses for Postgraduate Students

Learning Centre Workshops

• Advanced Academic Writing for PG Research students from non-English speaking backgrounds
• COFA Workshops
• 'Talking About Your Research'

Faculty-based Courses on Thesis Writing and Research Management

• COFA Thesis Writing Workshop
• Engineering
• Arts & Social Sciences

Learning Centre Workshops

Advanced Academic Writing for PG Research students from non-English speaking backgrounds

Duration: 10 week x 2 hours per week

Begins: Tuesday 19 March 2013

To enrol, please email Bronwen Phillips

In the primary context of thesis proposals and literature reviews, the aims of the course are to examine specific concerns of academic writing, which include:

• ways of introducing thesis proposals and hypotheses;
• structuring definitions;
• organising paragraphs, and
• using nominalisations.

Also discussed are:

• how to summarise and paraphrase;
• the language of evaluation;
• the development of your own writing voice, and
• editing strategies.

Numerous opportunities for feedback from the instructor and fellow students will be provided throughout the course.

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COFA Academic Skills Workshops

These workshops are provided for both undergraduate and postgraduate students on the CoFA campus.

For further information, please email Dr. Shivaun Weybury (s.weybury@unsw.edu.au)

For registration, please contact Elisabeth Burke e.burke@unsw.edu.au

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'Talking About Your Research': an Advanced Course in Oral Communication

This postgraduate research course aims to help prepare research students for their ongoing studies at UNSW. The aims of the course are for the participants to:

• build confidence when speaking critically about their research
• develop awareness of working on and empowering the 'student voice'
• enhance structures and processes that will strengthen the formal presentation
• enhance and provide practice in performance skills
• build awareness of the complexity of what makes a good oral presentation

Performance of presentations, self-review and peer feedback form an integral part of this course.

Duration: ‘Talking about your research’ is presented in weekly 2-hour workshop over 6 weeks.

Start Date: Thursday 1 March 2013

For further information, please contact Gwyn Jones

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Faculty-based Courses on Thesis Writing and Research Management

COFA Thesis Writing Workshop

The Thesis writing for CoFA students workshops will run on Wednesdays over four consecutive weeks, Wednesday 8, 15, 22 AND 29 May 2013

Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm

Location: Room 208 on level 2 of the Library, Kensington campus.

There will be 4 sessions in total. Students should attend all 4 workshops as each is on a different aspect of thesis writing. The workshops will provide an overview of the thesis writing process in the Arts. Topics will include:

• exploring thesis structures,
• approaching the literature review,
• choosing appropriate methodology, and
• writing discussion and conclusion chapters.

In addition, we will discuss a brief overview of the editing process and markers’ expectations.

For further information, please email Dr. Shivaun Weybury (s.weybury@unsw.edu.au)

Students can enrol online at https://booking.online.unsw.edu.au/booking/lc.login

Engineering

Credit bearing courses

All commencing PHD and Masters by Research UNSW Engineering students will automatically be enrolled in GSOE9400 - ‘Engineering Postgraduate Research Essentials’ . This course is managed and coordinated by the Graduate School of Engineering . See this link for more information: http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/information-for/current-students/postgraduates/workshops/research-induction-workshops

Thesis Writing in Engineering

This is a series of four workshops on structuring and editing the thesis. It is offered in Semester 2 each year. Students enroll via the Graduate School of Engineering. Contact Lynne O'Sullivan (l.osullivan@unsw.edu.au) for further information.

Arts and Social Sciences

ARTS5024 Research writing and presentation. Contact the Faculty for details or email Sue Starfield (s.starfield@unsw.edu.au).

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