Academic writing

I have been reading lots of paragraphs lately written by international students. One of the things that I have realised is that students’ paragraph writing can improve a lot after just a little bit of work! The more you write paragraphs, the better your paragraphs are! I’ve also been looking at those great writing resources … Read more

Here’s a joke I heard today which put a smile on my face: What do you call a man with a rubber toe? Roberto! (Say it out loud!) The best learning resources show you examples of good practice and point out important features which you should incorporate in your own work. The academic writing resources … Read more

One of the most important features of written academic English is the correct use of linking words.  Take this sentence as an example: In contrast to the difficulties researchers faced in collecting the data, the analysis phase of the research project was straightforward. The use of the linking phrase in contrast effectively joins the two … Read more

Students tell me that if they look for one type of mistake each time when they are checking their work, then they find more mistakes that they have made! This means checking your work just looking for mistakes with articles. Then look again and check your nouns to see that the plural/singular forms are correct. … Read more