Welcome to the BA Year 3 Support page for teachers in Bangi, Malaysia.

 

How to use this site and the resources:

 

This material should be adapted to suit your student's needs and added to, supplemented and timed to suit the wotrk patterns of your students.

 

Essentially  the courses will focus on:

 

1. Learning preferences

2. The writing process

3. Creating effective study notes

4. Academic writing and referencing

5. Exam revision and anxiety

 

The following are programmatic objectives for Academic Support:

•    To familiarize students with standard academic research methods and conventions. 

•    To develop students’ ability to critically evaluate secondary data.

•    To familiarise students with the structure templates of required academic documents on undergraduate and post-graduate programmes.

•    To encourage students in developing a critical perspective. 

•    To minimize instances of plagiarism on undergraduate and postgraduate progarmmes.

•    To assist students in answering examinations effectively.

 

Course Outline :         Academic Support                     
 

Introduction to Academic Support 

1.  Specifying pogrammatic learning outcomes

2. Assignment types and rationale

3. Clarifying deliverables

4.  Coherence structures

 

Academic research    

 

•    Defining academic resources
•    Creating research areas
•    Appropriating resources
•    Extracting information from texts

Writing a literature review 

 

•    Review format and purposes
•    Writing a thesis statement
•    Grading research
•    Search strategies
•    Using quotes effectively
•    Creating a bibliography

 

Writing reports and essays

•    Formats and purposes
•    Applying academic register
•    Written cohesion

 

Writing for exams

 •    Question types
•    Clarifying instruction terms
•    Writing case answers
•    Writing essay answers
•    Time management