Academic writing

This page lists articles to improve your academic writing skills

        

• What is Academic English?
• Abstracts – how to write an abstract
• Academic phrases for essay writing
• Cautious academic language
• Cohesion – making your writing flow
• Conclusions – how to write your conclusion to an essay
• Conclusions – how to write your conclusion to a report
• Editing your work
• Essay titles: understanding and unpacking the title
• Example academic essay on the death penalty
• Incorporating sources into your writing
• Introductions: how to write your introduction
• Linking words
• Literature review: a video talk
• Literature review (2)
• Literature review – subject and verb agreement
• Nominalisation
• Paragraph development
• Paraphrasing and avoiding plagiarism
• Personal statement
• Plagiarism
• Planning your essay
• Proofreading your work
• Punctuation
• Referencing
• Reflective writing
• What is the difference between an essay and a report?
• Reporting verbs
• Style: the nature of Academic English
• Topic sentences: how to write good topic sentences
• Writing: how to improve your writing