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Skills development

Employing Words: transferring academic writing skills to the job market Dr Emily Alder Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Articulation Hub Edinburgh Napier University. Skills development. Programme of academic skills development

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Skills development

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  1. Employing Words: transferring academic writing skills to the job marketDr Emily AlderEdinburgh & Lothians Regional Articulation HubEdinburgh Napier University

  2. Skills development Programme of academic skills development Piloted ‘Employing Words’ to address gap between academic and employable writing skills Aimed to encourage deep learning to promote transferability... ...and students’ confidence in that transferability

  3. Employing words...

  4. Reflection Adapted from Cottrell (2008)

  5. Critiquing faulty examples

  6. Evaluation Adapted from Kumar (2008)

  7. Putting it into practice: writing a good personal statement

  8. Results of student surveys

  9. I feel confident about sitting down to write a really good job application

  10. I know the type of language I should use in a written job application to make myself attractive to employers

  11. Student range

  12. How would you describe the way you feel now about the prospect of writing job applications? How would you describe the way you feel about the prospect of writing job applications?

  13. Some limitations Small student numbers Student perceptions: not able to measure actual writing skills... ... Nor track future student performance What next? Extend workshop programme Follow-up with online resources ?

  14. Reference list Boud, D., (1995). Assessment and learning: contradictory or complimentary? In P. Knight (ed) Assessment for Learning in Higher Education (1995) London: Kogan Paul, pp.35-48. Christie, H., Tett, L., Cree, V., McCune, V., and Hounsell, J., (2008). 'A real rollercoaster of confidence and emotions': learning to be a university student, Studies in Higher Education 33 (5): 567-581. Cottrell, S. (2008). The Study Skills Handbook London: Palgrave Macmillan. Gibbs, G., Rust, C., Jenkins, A., Jacques, D., (1994). Developing Students’ Transferable Skills Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff Development Hager, P. and Hodkinson, P., (2009). Moving beyond the metaphor of transfer of learning, British Educational Research Journal 35 (4): 619-638. Kumar, A. 2007. SOARing to Success: Personal, Academic and Career Development in Higher Education London: Routledge

  15. Thank you.Questions?Contact me em.alder@napier.ac.uk

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