Academic English skills for international students
It must be autumn because I have taken my boat out of the water for the winter and there has been a stock market crash! The SQ3R is a strategy for effective academic reading which has been around for decades. It is all about standing back and looking at the outline of the text you … Read more
Thanks to students who are emailing me. I am always pleased to hear from you even if it takes me a long time to reply. Unfortunately I cannot give everyone individual advice because I also have a full time job! Do remember that you can sign up to receive my posts by email. That means … Read more
It’s exciting to see all the new students walking around the campus! I hope that wherever you are you find some useful tips and links on this site. Remember you can sign up for e mails of my new posts by using the form on the right of the page and that way you don’t need to keep … Read more
I saw an interesting headline for an article in a British newspaper: ‘Chinese students continue to choose British universities‘. This headline makes it sound like Chinese students choose British universities rather than universities in other countries. However, after some surfing around the subject, I found an article in an Australian newspaper (published on the same … Read more