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Mangosuthu University of Technology Annual Report

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• Facilitated the upgrade of the Writing Lab in 2015.

The Writing Lab is fitted with the latest technology

and readily fully equipped with individualised

writing tables, provides students with support

in working cooperatively in small groups and in

writing as individual. Students referred by academic

departments are supported with assignments and

essay writing, research skills, referencing skills,

report writing, summarising, and paraphrasing at

remedial level and for editing and proofreading

services.

• The facilitation of the exit-level skills like interview

skills, presentation skills, curriculum vitae writing,

and job application and motivation letters. These

interventions took place via one-on-one sessions

and group sessions arranged with lecturers within

the ALLU.

• The provision of the Reading Space for students.

The Reading Space is not only limited to academic

work but even if a student wants to read for pleasure

or enrich his or her language skills. The Reading

Space located at ALLU provides students with a

wide range of fiction books which are available on

short loan.

• The development of an academic literacy skills

manual and laboratory manual by lecturing and lab

staff; respectively.

• Coordinated the Annual International Time of the

Writer Festival. The Theme for the 2015 Festival was

“Writers Speak Out”. Two highly esteemed local

writers, Mandla Langa and Kirsten Miller, paid a

visit to MUT as part of the 18th Annual International

Time of the Writer Festival. During the festival they

both shared their experiences of writing in modern

day South Africa.

• The continuous identification of at-risk students

using the Higher Education Data Analyzer

(HEDA). HEDA generates data and reports which

informs the monitoring and the support of at-risk

students through structured academic literacy skills

workshops.