Academic English skills for international students
My students will have to write about visual information in their end of year exam and that is the reason for today’s post. I am always looking for good pages online which can help students write about graphs and tables and although I have mentioned this one before I’m pretty sure my students won’t know about it. … Read more
Have you ever heard of the comma splice? Now you have! I was working with a student the other day who had written lots of sentences like this: The number of charity shops in the UK has been rising steadily over the past few years, you can now see charity shops everywhere you look in … Read more
This article tells you about the importance of planning your essay. One of my students asked me what he could do to improve his essay writing – what a difficult question! There are so many aspects to writing a good essay that it is impossible to cover them all but I’d like to emphasise one … Read more
I’ve noticed that when I’m in my office going through a piece of work with a student, as they are sitting there with me they often find lots of mistakes themselves. Even though they wrote the essay, now they are seeing it again more objectively, as if for the first time, and they find the … Read more