English skills for learning

This badge has been issued for participating in the activities in the free non-accredited course English: skills for learning. This course supported demonstration of the following learning outcomes: follow an active reading method to help you read academic texts and make notes; critically read source texts and appropriately use the information they contain in your writing; link ideas in your writing so that your readers can easily understand your ideas; make use of vocabulary and grammatical structures to express yourself more formally; make the most of online dictionaries and look at ways to record new words for future use; understand how to organise and punctuate sentences to increase clarity. You can review this unit at the following link: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/english-skills-learning/content-section-overview. This badge does not represent formal credit or award from The Open University. It does demonstrate participation in informal learning activity.