Traning in academic, critical and scholarly skills by a senior academic/ Doctor: helping and supporting students, lecturers, tutors, supervisors and researchers

Course setup

I am using the dialectical approach

We shall begin by critically discussing and analysing the meanings of academia; university; scholarship; academic writing, critical engagement, originality of mind; communication; significant contribution to knowledge, field and a subject communicable; communicable writing, publication, referencing; edititorial boards, how to deal with editorials, critical reviewers and editors; PhD; Masters, academic degrees

We shall then discuss the meanings of doing well at university and having a successful academic career and life at university.

We shall also discuss the meanings of not doing well at university and in the academy and the reasons for this. We shall analytically discuss how to get degrees quickly and successfully, with distinction.

We shall then incorporate (synthesise) the undesired failures in the academy within our desired aim of succeeding in the academy. We shall be working out ways of transforming these failures (the dialectical anti-thesis), to our desired wishes to publish good work, get one's degrees quickly and successfully and do well at university.

We shall practice academic writing and work on developing the students' manuscripts to successful submissions.

We shall discuss scenarios of both failures and successes at university, how to transform failures to successes and what to do and what not to do.

I shall very honestly reveal the internal secrets of editorial boards, publication, publishing, university, examining and supervising and what to do and what not to do.