Excel in your Higher Studies with Academic English
View(s):Have you studied in the Sinhala or Tamil language and are you switching over to the English medium for higher studies?
Whatever your level of English maybe, English for higher studies, or “Academic English”, as it is called is specialised.
As you compete in the globalized environment using the English medium, it is important to master Academic English. You need to express yourself and bring out your unique thoughts effectively, in order to excel in your chosen field of study in the English medium.
You need Academic English to read and understand your study material and write your tutorials, assignments, research papers, and answers at your exams. You will also need to be able to make presentations effectively.
The internet is inundated with material on every subject. However, it is important to pick credible material from credible sources for reference. It is also important for you to think critically and form your own perspective on the topics.
BEWARE OF PLAGIARISM
Copy pasting from internet or plagiarism and presenting such material as one’s own is considered a serious offence by Universities and institutes of education all over the world, including Sri Lanka. Software is freely available to detect plagiarism. Hence this is not something that any student should attempt. Getting others to edit or rewrite your submissions will take you nowhere in the long run. Eventually to succeed in your career, you will have to stand on your own feet.
The only way to succeed in communicating in the English medium is to improve your academic English skills.
WHAT IS ACADEMIC ENGLISH?
Much of academic English is about expressing the relationship between ideas. Although the language may be more complex than in everyday English, good academic writers aim to be as clear, precise and simple as possible. They think about what their readers know already, and aim to guide them towards less familiar areas and topics.
Academic subjects vary in their vocabulary and expressions, the types of text used (for instance essays, reports, research articles or summaries) and how these texts are structured and organised. However, there are fundamental rules that one needs to adhere to when using English for academic purposes.
The Rainbow Institute, a centre of excellence in training in Public Speaking, Soft Skills and English, is committed to help you.
We have developed a high impact curriculum based on international norms to equip students with the required skills in academic English
FUN-FILLED LEARNING
Like in all our courses, our Academic English programme too is practical and activity based to enhance the development of skills. Students will learn to think critically, read and analyse texts, write effectively for academic purposes, sort out and arrange information, structure essays, compile assignments and reports, and make powerful presentations.
PERSONALISED COACHING
This training provides personalised coaching of two hours per week over a duration of 30 hours. As sessions are limited to small numbers, each participant gets individual attention and is guided to bring out the best of his or her own distinctive strengths.
COURSE DIRECTOR
The empowerment programmes at Rainbow Institute are directed by eminent University academic, trainer and mentor of young people – Dr. Mahim Mendis.
Dr Mendis has a Phd (NUS) Singapore., MA (Lancaster) UK; Phil (Leicester) UK and BA (Hons); Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, He is also a Post- Doctoral Scholar, University of Northern Illinois, USA and University of Massachusetts, USA
Dr Mahim Mendis, a product of St Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia, has been mentoring and teaching in Sri Lanka and abroad for three decades. Dr. Mendis, the former Spokesman of the Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA), is well known as a powerful public speaker.
Dr Mendis is supported by dynamic trainers with high credentials and international exposure. They are now ready to bring about a life changing turning point for a bright future
Book your place NOW! Call Lovelyn on 077 509 0400 or Yashasmi on 077 857 0897 or 011 4380400 for further information to arrange personalized coaching or join a small group class to suit your specific needs and convenience.
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