MA Educational Leadership and Management Writing Course

Target students: Students registered on the MA Educational Leadership and Management

Duration: Nine weeks

Aims and objectives

The aim of the course is to help you develop your academic writing and provide support for your coursework.  Key objectives are as follows: 

• to develop your confidence in writing in English 
• to develop your written accuracy and fluency in academic contexts 
• to develop your ability to self-edit and proofread your own work 
• to better manage the process of writing assignments 

Syllabus

Week 1 – Selecting and Mapping a Topic

Week 2 – Academic Reading Skills

Week 3 – Searching for Sources

Week 4 – Synthesising Sources

Week 5 – Critical Synthesis

Week 6 – APA Referencing

Week 7 – Introductions

Week 8 – Conclusions

Week 9 – Proposals