Designed primarily for international students, this course aims to enable students to study academic discourse and to develop the language skills necessary to read effectively and write appropriately in an academic context. The course will develop note-taking, paraphrasing and summary writing skills. Students will critically evaluate a reading specific to their particular disciplines, write a critical review and practise sentence and paragraph construction to develop their essay writing skills. Attention will also be paid to grammatical features, identified in the diagnostic test, which enable writers to convey meaning with greater precision.