Let's Write: How to Write Academically

In this ongoing course, we will learn about a range of academic writing styles including reports, articles and essays. Suitable for ESL learners.

Essay writing is an important skill essential for academic excellence and personality development. Learners with good essay writing skills are able to develop expression and creativity through language and ideas. This class will give time to develop ideas, and practice essay writing, whilst also providing feedback each week.

What themes will we write about?

Week of 28/4/25 - Preparing for Academic Study - Understanding the Introduction of a Lecture
Week of 5/5/25 - Academic Focus - Extracting Key Factual Information
Week of 12/5/25 - Academic Focus - Writing a Description of Visual Information
Week of 19/5/25 - Academic Focus - Recognising Key Information in a Lecture
Week of 26/5/25 - Academic Focus - Presenting Visual Information
Week of 2/6/25 - How to Write with Conditionals
Week of 9/6/25 - How to Write a Review
Week of 16/6/25 - How to Write with Adverbials
Week of 23/6/25 - How to Write an Introduction
Week of 30/6/25 - How to Organise Paragraphs
Week of 7/7/25 - How to Include Evidence
Week of 14/7/25 - How to Write a Conclusion
Week of 21/7/25 - How to Write a Formal Letter
Week of 28/7/25 - How to Write a Report
Week of 4/8/25 - How to Write in the Passive Form
Week of 11/8/25 - How to Write an Article
Week of 18/8/25 - Using Evidence - Identifying Main Ideas and Supporting Evidence
Week of 25/8/25 – Using Evidence - Analysing and Writing Topic Sentences
Week of 1/9/25 – Using Evidence - Understanding the Main Ideas in Lectures
Week of 8/9/25 – Using Evidence - Reading a Text to Prepare for a Tutorial Discussion
Week of 15/9/25 – Preparing for Academic Study - Speaking in Seminars
Week of 22/9/25 – Preparing for Academic Study - Reading, Making Notes, and Summarising
Week of 29/9/25 – Preparing for Academic Study - Understanding the Wording of Academic Tasks

Come to class prepared with your notebook and pens and ready to share your ideas and get writing!

We look forward to being part of your learning journey!