Module manager: Milada Walkova
Email: M.Walkova@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
| ELU5001M | Participants, Practices and Pedagogies in Academic Communica |
| ELU5002M | Knowledge, Politics and Cultures in Academia |
This module is not approved as an Elective
You will develop an ability to analyse academic texts from various perspectives in the context of scholarly literature and pedagogical application. You will draw on literature to evaluate approaches to text analyses for pedagogical and research purposes.
In this module you will develop an understanding of a range of approaches to text analysis including genre, discourse and corpus linguistic analyses. You will apply and critically evaluate these approaches for the purposes of teaching, scholarship and research.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of approaches to text analysis within a range of academic texts and contexts, and the pedagogical and scholarship applications of these.
2. Evaluate the use of text analysis to understand the epistemological, sociological and linguistic aspects of disciplines and discourses in HE.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Apply subject specific knowledge of a field to professional practice,
2. Justify how choices are made and their implications.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Independent online learning hours | 20 | ||
| Private study hours | 109 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 21 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
The formative task is a practice essay with text analysis. The textual analytical approach selected for the formative assessment must be different from the one selected for the summative assessment.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Text Analysis | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 14/02/2025
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