Academic English skills for international students
Oops! I am delighted to be sharing my daughter’s excitement as she prepares to head off to university. She has been getting lots of things through the post, including A Welcome Message from the Principle of her college. Principle?? My children say that I am pedantic when it comes to punctuation and spelling but even I … Read more
Many university students will be starting to prepare for examinations that are looming after Easter. Last week I got my students to do a practice exam in which they had to sit and write for two hours, as they will have to do in the real exam. I nearly didn’t do this exam practice because … Read more
Spring came to Devon in England today! The good weather and longer days means that it is time for students at our university to look ahead and think that in a couple of months they will be taking their exams and often that means writing essays. For this reason I am going to spend a … Read more
Lots of students I know will be starting to seriously get down to dissertation writing after their mid-winter break, and lots of students I know will be panicking about it! My first piece of advice to students writing their dissertation is to draw up a schedule with dates for the main things you have to … Read more