Academic English skills for international students
Patrick What devices? Linking devices! These are things that your teachers go on and on about all the time! These are the expressions like furthermore, however, on top of that and all those other words that your teacher gets you to underline in class all the time. Why is your teacher obsessed about these things? Because … Read more
What a question! Last week someone came to see me, “Patrick, my writing is terrible,” he said to me, “what can I do?” Unfortunately he had not brought any work with him. I sent him away and asked him to write something and bring it to me. Then we would have something to work with. … Read more
I’ve had a few overseas scholars bringing abstracts to me recently which is the reason for today’s posting. (If you don’t know what an abstract is then you don’t need to write one and you can go and have a cup of tea! Basically it’s a summary of an article written for an academic journal … Read more
One way of improving your essay writing is to see what other people have written. Of course you read books, you read articles, you listen to your lecturers, but how often do you get the chance to read an essay written by another student which has had a good mark? By looking at other people’s … Read more