This course is designed to assist Research Postgraduate students at approximately the mid-way point during the development of their thesis. After their first year, they will have already done much research and thought about the general components of their thesis. Their second year will be a spring-board for writing in their 3rd (and in some cases, 4th) years. Students will be expected to complete a series of short writing assignments focusing on academic writing (and in some cases, related to their Master’s/doctoral research) with a view to having them develop a range of tools to help them during drafting of the thesis. Through interactive workshops and small group discussion, students will be expected to engage constructively in critique and feedback on their own and colleagues’ work. In addition to developing writing skills and discovering their individual academic voice, students will develop a sense of different academic writing conventions and will be able to distinguish between and draft the thesis and academic articles (which, to the extent it does not interfere with their thesis research and writing, they may wish to write during their years as Master’s/doctoral students).