Students will acquire intellectual skills in identifying a research topic and formulating research questions and hypotheses. Students will improve their skills in critical analysis, e.g. preparing a literature review, recognising flaws in arguments, assessing the merits of an essay, abstract and/or handout. |
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B4 B8 B9 B16 B18
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Students will improve their skills in academic writing. On successful completion of the course students will have shown the ability to design a research project of depth and complexity, using primary sources and critical literature, with a standard of scholarly presentation of the material produced appropriate to MA study. |
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B4 B9 B16 B19 B20
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Students will be introduced to essential methods of data collection, whereby they will learn to carry out linguistic research in an appropriate systematic and ethical way. |
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B2 B6 B19
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