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How to write abstracts - and get your audience interested See also notes on ECS module page: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/module/1617/COMP1205/33423/

Description of a set student activity to create summaries of selected academic papers. Also contains small set of selected papers from which to choose two papers to read and summarise

using the technical report to motivate scholarly research

Showing a timescale for researching and writing your report

An information source evaluation matrix, produced by the Library at De Montfort University

Guidance notes with mark scheme

general guide to report writing style details

Copy of widely available guide to academic writing Hartley, J., 2008. Academic writing and publishing: A practical handbook, Routledge.3. the Manchester Phrase bank (linked here too) gives example phrases for writing

Link to pdf of this really useful short, readable, book. First published in 1934 http://w3.salemstate.edu/~pglasser/18468462-Dorothea-Brande-Becoming-a-Writer.pdf

Links to video's (wip)

A reflection exercise to help you understand the reflection process better

Download and edit this document to prepare your hand in. The portfolio comprises a cover sheet plus five pages of reflective writing, one page addressing each different portfolio topic This shows the cover sheet, the assessment criteria and the portfolio summary IT IS NOT THE PORTFOLIO TEMPLATE The questions shown under each sub-heading are meant to act as thinking prompts to help you in the reflective process.

This explains the mark scheme for the portfolio

The portfolio comprises a cover sheet plus five pages of reflective writing, one page addressing each different portfolio topic This document summarises the contents of the portfolio IT IS NOT THE PORTFOLIO TEMPLATE The questions shown under each sub-heading are meant to act as thinking prompts to help you in the reflective process.

Looks at the different ways we write for different audiences.

Notes and in class exercise

A brief coverage of the structure of a paper/report and some hints on writing and avoiding plagiarism