Effective English For Postgraduate Research Students

Effective English for Postgraduate Research Students (EEPRS) is an advanced academic English programme launched in September 1998 by the Department of English, to provide support, advice and guidance to postgraduate research students at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Since its inception in 1998, EEPRS has offered help and support to more than 1,900 workshop and mentoring session participants from various departments at the PolyU, through more than 170 one-to-one, face-to-face mentoring sessions, and more than 100 general, department-specific and faculty-specific workshops and tailored courses. The feedback from research students and staff has been extremely positive, and awareness of the value and contributions of the EEPRS programme continues to grow.

In addition to generic workshops, in the academic year 2001-2002 EEPRS started to offer a  non credit-bearing subject in collaboration with the English Language Centre (ELC) for postgraduate students which is entitled "Communication Strategies in Research Contexts in English". To find out more about this new initiative, click here.

In Semester 2, 2007, EEPRS is introducing another non-credit-bearing subject for research students -- Writing Research Articles. To find out more about this new initiative, click here.

You can contact EEPRS
at this email:    egeeprs@inet.polyu.edu.hk     or
at this phone:   2766-7572 (Carolyn LUI)       or
at this fax:         2333-6569

Department of English
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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