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This guide explores the role and structure of the paragraph as used within academic writing. Use it to better understand what it is you need to achieve prior to writing as well as a means of self-evaluating your written draft paragraphs during the review and editing phase of assignment or research project writing.
This guide explores an important means of developing a more precise academic writing style. By recognising the differences between passive and active voices (or written styles) in sentence structure. An active voice is characterised by more assertive, precise and thus meaningful sentence structure that leaves your reader in no doubt as to your intended meaning.
Use this important guide! It explores several extremely common writing errors encountered by assessors. Read this guide as is to raise your awareness of these mistakes and apply the advice it offers during the drafting and final editing stages of a written piece of work in order identify whether you are committing these errors without realising and remedy them before submission.
This guide suggests a seven step process with associated tips and advice for planning, researching, writing and editing an assessed written assignment. Use it as is, or as a basis for developing your existing approach to academic assignment and essay writing.
This guide offers advice on both establishing the skills you need to evidence within written assessment tasks as well as tips for developing your academic vocabulary and writing style.
Use this series of reflective prompts to self-assess just how academic your writing really is? Does it fulfil these common characteristics and qualities of good academic writing?
Extending the ideas raised in the above worksheet, this useful checklist can be used to self-assess your own academic writing against a range of commonly used criteria types, forms of which are often found within marking descriptors to aid in assessing the quality of academic writing. Assess yourself! How well have you done? What mark would you award yourself?
Use these concise paragraph topic template prompts to think about how your piece of academic writing will flow coherently, with your written discussion of various sub-topic matters each leading in to the next.
This useful guide distinguishes academic writing from other forms of writing and in doing so explains its defining characteristics which you will be seeking to demonstrate to your assessors.
A bitesize academic skills video examining the key characteristics of academic argument and its structure before considering higher order critical thinking skills and the vocabulary associated with them that you can use to articulate your critical method to assessors.
A bitesize academic skills video which begins by defining what an essay is and how it relates to university assessment before considering typical stages of essay writing, academic writing style and essay structure.
McMillan, K. and Weyers, J.D.B. (2012) The study skills book. Third edition. Harlow, England: Pearson Education Limited.
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Use this form to formulate, analyse and evaluate your own argument. Use the prompts to effectively develop your own ideas, supporting arguments and collate your evidence. Your summaries, analysis and thoughts regarding your argument can later be copied, pasted and edited into your assignment or thesis.
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