Understand academic sources and learn the best English academic reading strategies from this free online course. Academic reading skills help you understand complex texts more effectively. It helps you extract key information and analyze content more critically. This free online course will teach you the academic style of English writing. It will also teach you how to evaluate information, analyze scholarly sources, and enhance comprehension during academic reading. You will be able to develop vocabulary, master note-taking, and analyze any research paper.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201671 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Define academic style and differentiate between formal and informal language in scholarly writing • Identify credible sources and classify them as scholarly or non-scholarly by structure, content, and purpose • Apply credible sources and determine if they are scholarly or not by structure, content, and purpose • Summarize key arguments and supporting evidence from academic texts to boost understanding and memory • Assess the credibility of sources by evaluating bias, assumptions, and quality of evidence • Arrange ideas from academic texts using outlines, concept maps, or other structured formats • Select academic words by recognizing subject-specific terms and linking them to academic contexts • Paraphrase complex academic language and create clear summaries to aid learning and discussion • Compare primary and secondary research papers in terms of structure, content, purpose, and use cases • Analyze academic texts to make inferences by connecting prior knowledge and evaluating arguments |
| Course Code | 7515 |
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