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Researcher Education & Development
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Level 6 115 Grenfell Street
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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Telephone: +61 8 8303 3022
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 5725

RED Language Programs - Workshop Schedule

Topics

Reading and Writing
Workshop Description
VenueDateWho should attend

Taking a Critical Approach
Exploring the ways in which a critical approach is expressed in the language and structure of research documents.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 21
OR
Thurs 22 March
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all postgraduate students, particularly those with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Reviewing Literature
Exploring strategies for searching for relevant literature, organising literature and the language structures of literature reviews.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 28
OR
Thurs 29 March
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all postgraduate students, particularly those with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Research Proposals and Other Research Genres
Exploring the ways in which language and document structure change in different types of research writing.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 9
OR
Thurs 10 May
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all postgraduate students.

 

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Reading & Note Taking for Researchers
Assisting researchers to take effective notes and improve their reading.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 14
OR
Thurs 15 March
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all postgraduate students, particularly those with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

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Oral Presentations
 Workshop Description
VenueDateWho should attend

Pronunciation Clinic
Providing practical advice and exercises aimed at enhancing pronunciation in English.


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Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room
Level 6, 115 Grenfell Street


Small group clinics for researchers with particular difficulty in pronouncing English sounds.

 

Presenting a Seminar in Your Discipline
Exploring the technical and practical aspects of oral presentation in English research cultures.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Thurs 26 April
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all postgraduate students, particularly those with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Pronunciation for Researchers
Providing practical advice and exercises aimed at enhancing pronunciation in English.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 25 January
11.00am-1.00pm

Wednesday 23
OR
Thurs 24 May
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all researchers with English as an additional language who have particular difficulty pronouncing English sounds.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Intonation Patterns of English
Providing practical advice and exercises aimed at developing natural intonation patterns.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 16
OR
Thurs 17 May
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all researchers with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Advanced Pronunciation for Researchers
Providing practical advice and exercises aimed at enhancing pronunciation in English.

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Level 14
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 20
OR
Thurs 21 June
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all researchers with English as an additional language who wish to refine their English pronounciation.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

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Refining Research Documents
 Workshop Description
VenueDateWho should attend

Grammar Clinic
Exploring the grammatical structures commonly associated with research writing in English and provides practical strategies to avoid errors.

Students are to send 1
un-edited piece of writing to michelle.picard@adelaide.edu.au one week prior to the workshop.

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Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room
Level 6, 115 Grenfell Street

Small group clinics for researchers with particular difficulty in English grammar.

Editing and Self-editing in Research Writing
Exploring practical editing techniques and strategies for research writers.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 2
OR
Thurs 3 May
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all postgraduate students with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Cohesion and Coherence in Research Documents
Exploring practical strategies for developing a readable, cohesive research document.

 

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

 

Wednesday 1 February
11.00am-1.00pm

S1 2012

Wednesday 30
OR
Thurs 31 May
11.00am-1.00pm

 

Suitable for all postgraduate students, particularly those with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Grammar for Researchers
Exploring the grammatical structures commonly associated with research writing in English and provides practical strategies to avoid errors.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 8 February
11.00am-1.00pm

S1 2012

Wednesday 6
OR
Thurs 7 June
11.00am-1.00pm

 

Suitable for all postgraduate students with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Corpora, concordancing and text-matching software
This workshop teaches researchers how to use corpora, concordancing and plagiarism detection software to explore discipline-specific/topic specific language in research documents and check for acceptable and unacceptable text-matches. 

All workshop participants should bring along 20-30 high quality research articles on their topic on a USB a well as a soft copy of a research document they have recently written.
 
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2-28 Computer Suite 3
10 Pultney Street

Suitable for all researchers particularly those with English as an additional language.

EndNote
A demonstration for absolute beginner users of Endnote. No knowledge of EndNote is assumed.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Thursday 12
January 2012
10.00am-11.00am

Seats given to current IBP-R students only
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Research Cultures
 Workshop Description
VenueDateWho should attend

Appropriate Citation and Avoiding Plagiarism
Exploring appropriate citation and referencing conventions and the language structures used to express 'voice' in research documents

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

 

 

Wednesday 18
OR
Thurs 19 April
11.00am-1.00pm

Suitable for all postgraduate students, particularly those with English as an additional language.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Listening in Research Contexts
Providing practical tips and exercises for researchers to enhance their listening skills in a variety of different research contexts.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Wednesday 15 February
11.00am-1.00pm

S1 2012

Wednesday 13
OR
Thurs 14 June
11.00am-1.00pm

 

Suitable for postgraduate students with English as an additional language.

 

Preference given to current IBP-R students

Being Supervised
Providing research students with insight into the variety of supervision styles common to Australian research cultures and strategies to enhance their communication with their supervisors.

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Level 6
115 Grenfell Street
Adelaide Graduate Centre
Seminar Room

Semester 3
Wednesday 29 February
11.00am-1.00pm

S1 2012

Wednesday 27
OR
Thurs 28 June
11.00am-1.00pm

 

Suitable for Higher Degrees by Research students early in their research candidature who are new to the Australian research context.

Preference given to current IBP-R students

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