Academic English skills for international students
I met some new international students yesterday and they were complaining about the weather in the UK. It’s official – August this year was the worst August that we have ever had according to records, but that’s not a bad thing if you are sitting in class! Brits try to make themselves feel better by … Read more
The reason why this topic keeps cropping up in my posts is because students keep plagiarising! In my view this is one of the hardest things for students from other cultures to understand and to avoid doing. I think, unfortunately, that many overseas students do not get enough help and this is one reason why … Read more
I said a few things in my last post about essay marking criteria. Each institution uses different marking criteria, but generally speaking it is quite unusual to get much more than 70% for a piece of work at a British university. This often worries students as they may be used to getting much higher marks. … Read more
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