MA Academic Writing Development and Research

Applicants should hold a second class honours degree or above in any academic discipline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, or Sciences, and have an interest in teaching, supporting, and researching academic writing.

Applicants who can demonstrate relevant experience at an appropriate professional level but do not have the formal academic entry qualifications may be admitted subject to an application and assessment.

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Funding opportunities including scholarships available

Careers and opportunities

Upon successful completion of this course, you will able to:

• Apply and evaluate approaches to teaching and supporting academic writing, ranging from student writing to writing for scholarly publication.
• The ability to identify, resolve and reflect upon problems arising from applying academic writing pedagogies in practice.
• Propose theoretical and practical solutions for key challenges facing writers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who wish to engage in the process of writing and publishing their research.
• Recognise ways different institutional and cultural constraints shape the practice of academic writing provision.
• Identify researchable questions in the study of academic writing, ranging from student writing to writing for scholarly publication.
• Critically evaluate theoretical models and research methodologies and demonstrate the ability to select appropriate ones to investigate issues in academic writing, ranging from student writing to writing for scholarly publication.
• Design and implement a small-scale research project in any aspect of academic writing.

Successful completion of this course will enhance your career prospects for working with students, academics, and other colleagues through supporting, teaching and carrying out research on academic writing.

This course combines the theory and practice necessary for working effectively as a writing developer in writing centres, learning centres, staff development centres, and research centres, and for providing writing support in disciplinary or workplace contexts, in the UK and internationally.

Year one

Modules

• Teaching and Supporting Academic Writing – 20 credits
• Contextual Issues in Developing Research Communication – 10 credits
• Writing Centre and Writing Programme Development and Management – 20 credits
• Supporting Research-Active Staff with Research Communication – 10 credits

Year two

Modules

• Researching Academic Writing – 20 credits
• Academic Writing, Multilingualism and Knowledge Production – 10 credits
• Writing in the Disciplines – 20 credits
• Academic Writing in a Multimodal World – 10 credits
• Dissertation Research and Writing – 60 credits