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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.