Academic Writing & Research Skills KS4/KS5: Whole Course 30+ PowerPoints, Worksheets, Online Quizzes

Six units, which took me about 6 months to teach, for academic writing for KS4/KS5 students on researching, gathering data and writing up a research report. Over 30 PowerPoints are including, as well as worksheets, readings and self-marking Forms quizzes.

Students will undertake a research project centered around their school on a topic of their choice. Eg. To what extent does the mobile phone policy at X School improve student learning? To what extent are students at X School satisfied with the school uniform policy?

Please see my preview video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Jp61qsTsRH4. Everything you see in those files is included. I organised the folders into zipped files to maintain the organisation system.

I taught this course to second-language Y13 learners. It would be appropriate for KS5 and KS4 students.

This 6 unit scheme of work takes students through the basics of academic writing, creating a research question, gathering data and writing up their own academic research report. Most units also contain a seminar and a lecture lesson to help prepare students for university.

• Unit 1: The Basics. How to reference, using academic language, quoting and summarising from an academic source, structuring an academic paragraph, lecture lesson and a seminar lesson on vaping, culminating in a quiz to check understanding
• Unit 2: Writing Introductions. Creating a research question, writing context and rationale sections, seminar and lecture on gender identity. Quiz is included also.
• Unit 3: Writing literature reviews. How to find relevant studies using Questia/JSTOR, how to structure a literature review, seminar and lecture on parental control.
• Unit 4: Methology and Data Collection. Designing a research instrument, ethics of research, creating a poster to get people to take their surveys, finishing with a group seminar to give feedback on each other’s data tools. Exemplar included.
• Unit 5: Data Analysis. Creating data visuals, how to analyse their results, writing data analysis section with exemplar and worksheet, seminar to get feedback on their writing so far.
• Unit 6: Writing Conclusions, Abstracts and Redrafting. Guidance on writing abstracts with a worksheet, guidance on conclusions with an exemplar and peer feedback session to give students advice on how to redraft and improve their final essay. Also included is a final summative quiz, mostly self-marking.
• Quizzes, rubrics and whole year overview are included.