English for Academic Purposes Support Programme for students
Academic English is much more than just writing and speaking in a communicatively satisfactory pidgin-English. Basically, the academic written genre (whether it is an essay or a report) is documentation of an investigation with the aim of convincing the reader of the accuracy of the investigation’s results in a presentation which is acceptable within the academic discourse community. And the conventionally established demands for this kind of presentation in the Anglo-American style, which we generally practice at RU, are that the language must be clear, coherent, concise, correct and to a certain degree cautious, and that the investigation is structured in a strictly linear and non-digressive way.
If you feel you need help with your general English language proficiency, or need help with understanding and practising academic English writing, as e.g. described above, academic English reading or speaking, or tackling study skills in English in general, you might want to consider either participating in one of our 6-week tailor-made courses in academic English or in one-to-one / group advisory sessions. You are of course also welcome to sign up for both services!
Below you will find a description of the various offers including descriptions of the requirements for participating.