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Not currently available in 2020
Unit description
Provides postgraduate students with the opportunity to develop advanced critical thinking, writing and research skills, culminating in a draft literature review. Students learn to conduct an advanced literature search, critically analyse research literature, establish an advanced bibliographic database, write critically in an academic style, structure a research report and develop an academic argument.
Unit content
- Choosing an appropriate research topic for postgraduate study
- Advanced literature searching strategies
- Using advanced citation and referring tools
- Critical reading and note-taking from research literature
- Writing critically in an academic style
- Using advanced documentation processing for research writing
- Developing an argument through a critical literature review
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Locate research literature relevant to an appropriate research topic for postgraduate study | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 2 | Analyse and critique research literature to formulate and structure a well-argued critical literature review | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 3 | Demonstrate advanced academic writing and referencing skills | Intellectual rigour | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 4 | Reflect on learning and understanding of advanced research skills. | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | |||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
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