English Language Support for International Students
A wide range of courses are available to help international students with their English and academic skills. For first year PhD students, there’s “Writing a PhD First-Year Report”, which aims to help students to prepare the paper (or report, or proposal) that they will be writing for their first year review (or ‘panel’ or ‘progression board’), towards the end of the first year of their doctoral studies. This course starts in the week beginning 23 October 2017, and the application deadline is Friday 13 October.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/english-language-teaching/students/current-students/elsis/elsis-courses/course-9
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For second and third year PhD students there’s Writing your PhD: Reviewing the Literature.
This course starts week beginning 2 October 2017
Other workshops include:
- Writing up Quantitative and Qualitative Research
- Social Speaking Skills
- Better Pronunciation
- Academic Writing
- Grammar for Academic Writing
Find out more here: www.ed.ac.uk/english-language-education