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Academic Writing

English Writing: Grammar and Composition

The Photo Essay: Storytelling with Image and Text

English: Creative and Critical Reading

In this subject you will develop your ability to communicate in written form in a university environment. You will gain the skills and develop strategies to plan and write academically. In particular, you will analyse assignment tasks, learn how to structure an essay, draw on your critical thinking skills, and synthesise multiple academic sources and reference these in-text.

Learn how to write like a university student. Academic writing skills are essential for successful essays, exams, reports, and more. You’ll cover the entire writing process—including planning, drafting, referencing, and editing.

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 UPP026 (Academic Writing) and Associate Degree or Bachelor Degree writing.

Writing in Practice

This subject introduces you to methods of close reading, formal analysis, and creative writing. We work on developing strategies to analyse literary texts and screen texts in detail, to break them down into their component parts, and explain how they work to generate complex meanings. We look closely at how texts are made: from the rhythms of poetry, to the angles of film, and the world-building of novels. As well as critical skills, this subject engages your imaginative and creative skills in response to different narrative forms and genres. When you successfully complete this subject, you will have gained a foundational vocabulary and developed core skills on which to base further studies in English and Writing.

English Writing introduces students to, and consolidates their knowledge of, the conventions of English grammar and composition. The subject focuses on fashioning the skills required of an academic writer. The subject covers:• the processes and mechanics of academic writing;• grammar, syntax, voice, punctuation, and usage; and• sentence, paragraph, and essay structure.

The ability to strategically communicate is a skill required in many industries and sectors. In this subject, you are introduced to a variety of media platforms and approaches to provide a strong foundation for participation in the media and communication industries. You will be introduced to key trends and changes in contemporary media practices, technologies, business models and audience behaviours. A fundamental appreciation of key concepts in media writing will enable you to think strategically about content creation, information gathering and audience engagement, which will equip you to write and pitch a story to a relevant publication. You will gain a deeper understanding of how strategic communication can drive change in a variety of contexts while acquiring important practical skills in professional communication, information management, media engagement and publicity.

Introduction to Strategic Communication

We know the impact that photographic images can have on us, individually and collectively. When images and words come together to tell a story they can be entertaining, revelatory, breath-taking, and even powerful agents of change. In this subject, you will learn how to create a photo essay, by honing your writing skills and learning how to create, select, and edit photographic and digital images. Putting words and images together, you will identify how to use the photo essay format for professional and creative expression and evaluate how this format and the skills that you have learnt can be applied in the context of Creative Arts and Health.

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