Bay Campus (Week 3 - Writing Skills )

Formatting in Word

Learning to apply and modify formatting styles in Word will not only give your work a professional finish but will make the document accessible and easy to navigate. You will also be able to create and update a contents page at the click of a button.

 Bay Campus
 Monday 9th February 2026
 10:00 - 12:00

 digital skills, Word, formatting styles, contents page

Report Writing

This workshop covers the basics of report writing, including the structure, purpose and effective presentation of information.

 Bay Campus
 Tuesday 10th February 2026
 10:00 - 11:00

  report writing basics

Essay Writing: Step by Step

Build confidence in your academic writing. This 6-week, hands-on course is designed for students who want to master the academic essay. Learn each stage of the writing process—from understanding your assignment to submitting a polished piece. Develop your own essays in a supportive, workshop-style environment.

 Bay Campus
 Tuesday 10th February 2026 (Session 1 of 6)
 12:00 - 13:30

Reading Skills

This course will introduce you to different strategies to improve your vocabulary and reading comprehension. You will learn ways to improve your reading in English, using academic and news text sources.

  Bay Campus
  Tuesday 10th February 2026 (Session 3 of 5)
 14:00 - 15:00

 study skills, English language support, academic reading

Writing Intros and Conclusions

Learn to start and end your assignment well, with techniques for improving the impact of your academic introductions and conclusions.

  Bay Campus
  Thursday 12th February 2026
  10:00 - 11:00

 academic writing, introductions, conclusions

Getting to know LaTeX

This workshop is a beginners guide to writing documents in LaTeX using Overleaf. No prior knowledge is needed for this workshop or any other computing language, it will cover the basics of LaTeX including document structure, typesetting text, tables, figures, equations and Inserting references.

 Bay Campus
 Thursday 12th February 2026
 11:00 - 12:00

Pronunciation

The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.

  Bay Campus
  Thursday 12th February 2026 (Session 3 of 8)
 12:00 - 13:00

 English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress

Partial Fractions

Adding rational expressions and simplifying is relatively easy. However, going the other way round, expressing a single rational function as the sum of two or more simpler ones is much more difficult. This workshop teaches us how to handle partial fractions and denominators with repeated quadratic factors.

  Bay Campus
  Thursday 12th February 2026
  12:00 - 13:00

Solving Quadratic Equations

A quadratic equation is a polynomial equation of degree 2. The ''U'' shaped graph of a quadratic is called a parabola. A quadratic equation has two solutions. Either two distinct real solutions, one double real solution or two imaginary solutions. There are several methods we can use to solve a quadratic equation explored in this workshop.

  Bay Campus
  Thursday 12th February 2026
  13:00 - 14:00

Editing and Proofreading

The best assignments evolve out of several earlier drafts, so editing and proofreading are essential to good academic writing. This workshop focuses on the tools and techniques you need to ensure that your writing is clear and error-free.

  Bay Campus
  Thursday 12th February 2026
  13:00 - 14:00

 academic writing, editing, proofreading, drafting

Academic Writing in English

This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.

  Bay Campus
  Thursday 12th February 2026 (Session 3 of 10)
 14:00 - 15:00
 writing, grammar