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Introduction to Academic Discourse for students in the Humanities and Social Sciences (A kit for lecturers and students in a wide range of disciplines)
The author (an Academic Skills Adviser) designed a program of academic skills development that could be incorporated into any first-year subject in Humanities and Social Sciences and taught by the discipline subject tutors. The materials do not introduce new ideas into the teaching of subjects; they are based upon the teaching the author observed across the Faculty over 17 years. What they are designed to do is to focus students' attention explicitly on the things that often pass over their heads in the crucial first few weeks at university. The materials are offered as a model to be used or adapted in subjects to generate discipline-specific activities. They do not propose the addition of new readings, but use materials the subjects are using anyway.