Academic Reading in the age of AI

Duration: 8 weeks
Open to all students


Aims and objectives:

This course helps you to read university texts more efficiently and confidently, by helping you to:

• adjust your reading approach for different purposes
• identify key ideas and arguments
• interpret academic language
• evaluate the reliability and relevance of sources
• judge where AI tools can be useful, and where they can be misleading or academically inappropriate

Syllabus

Week 1            Active Reading and Strategic Control

Week 2            Reading Gears: Matching Strategy to Purpose

Week 3            Reading Faster without Losing Meaning

Week 4            Reading Clues I: Paragraph Logic and Cohesion &  Reading Clues II: Text Organisation and Academic Patterns

Week 5           Vocabulary, Meaning, and AI Paraphrasing Risks

Week 6            Reading in the Age of AI: Reliability, Bias, and Hallucination

Week 7            Selecting, Screening, and Verifying Academic Sources

Week 8            Synthesis, Academic Identity, and Ethical AI Use