Transferable Academic Skills Kit (TASK) (American Edition) (New Edition) Instructor’s Manual

Transferable Academic Skills Kit (TASK) (American Edition) (New Edition) Instructor’s Manual

Transferable Academic Skills Kit (American Edition)

ransferable Academic Skills Kit is a flexible learning resource that has been carefully designed to develop the key transferable skills that promote students’ success in university and college study. Whether you are a student or an instructor, TASK provides a tried and tested teaching and learning tool suitable for a broad range of academic disciplines.

A series of supported exercises relates theory to practice and provides students with the tools to develop a framework of skills that can then be used in a wide range of contexts both inside and outside the academic world. Each module also has web work and extension activities that offer additional information and practice relating to the skills covered in that module.

TASK can be followed as a complete program of study, or individual modules can be selected to address specific needs.

Created by members of the International Foundation Programme, provided by the International Study and Language Institute (ISLI) at the University of Reading.

The modules are organized as follows:

1. Academic Culture
2. Group Work: Projects & Seminars
3. Critical Thinking
4. Essay Writing
5. Scientific Writing
6. Research & Online Sources
7. Referencing & Avoiding Plagiarism
8. Presentations
9. Assessments, Exams and Review
10. Numeracy

Language: US

Level: B1+ Intermediate

EL; ESF | 428.24

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