Writing in Practice
UndergraduateTAS-UPP0142025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $0
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Writing in Practice
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Plan and create forms of writing for an academic context
- Communicate using academic conventions
- Evaluate and integrate academic sources
- What is academic writing?
- Writing perspectives
- Writing formally
- Applying feedback
- Proofreading tips
- Writing paragraphs
- Source integration and referencing
- Essay structure
- Editing tips
- Finding academic sources
- Reading strategies, planning and drafting
- Writing the essay
- Revision techniques
- Essay consultation
This subject introduces the skills of academic writing by examining broad conventions. In this subject you will learn how to analyse assessment questions, plan and structure essays, build an academic language set, and write for the academic environment. To enable you to practise and apply your writing skills, you will complete individual journal pieces and an essay. This core subject in the University Preparation Program uses a series of micro themes to develop critical writing skills and to provoke interest in a range of disciplines. This introductory subject will prepare you for Associate Degree or Bachelor in Degree writing.
- Written Reflection (15%)
- Online Writing Journal (35%)
- Essay Plan (10%)
- Complete Essay (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-UPP-DEG-2025 - University Preparation Program
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 1-hour online Workshop weekly; 1-hour online tutorial
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
University Preparation Program
UndergraduateTAS-UPP-DEG