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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 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.
This LiveLearning video provides an in depth overview of the role and practice of paraphrasing academic sources, a key aspect of rounded academic writing.
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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.
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"Regardless of the type of writing assignment you have to complete, or your discipline, the structure will follow a basic format. This chapter describes this design and explores some of the features that need to be included as you map your outline plan onto this structure."
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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.
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"In preparation for looking at the more formal conventions of academic writing, this chapter looks at the fundamental stages in preparing to respond to any assignment. It takes you through a step-by-step process to help you plan the structure of your submission."
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"Planning your academic writing will help you to develop the planning skills that you’ll need in your future career. This chapter outlines some different planning options you may need to consider when structuring your response into an academic format."
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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?
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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.
This form offers prompts for analysing academic arguments, use it to dissect, describe and assess the effectiveness of academic propositions made by others or apply it to your own academic writing as a means of self-assessing your work as you draft your assignment.
Use this form to evaluate an argument once you have analysed it. Whereas an analytical approach will enable you to identify the component parts of an author's argument, an evaluative approach will enable you to critically appraise and assess the clarity of the overall argument itself and importantly, the author's presentation of it.
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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We all make mistakes in our writing, but can you spot where you make mistakes and - if so - how to put them right? In this workshop, we go through, one by one, what we've found to be the most common writing errors in student work. From comma splices to sentence structure, we'll look at errors that can undermine the impact of your writing or even change the meaning of what you're trying to say.
The ability to paraphrase is very important to your chances of finding academic success on your programme of study. It's a skill that not only helps you to demonstrate your understanding of key issues and ideas; it also plays a part in helping you to develop a more critical approach in your work. In this workshop, we'll look at what it is and why it's so important. We'll also give you some practical tips on how you can start to paraphrase with confidence.
Integrating the views you find in academic sources into your own writing isn't easy. By using the technique of 'voices' you can add greater depth to your argument and the points you're making. In addition, you will more easily develop a more critical approach to these sources. In this session, we'll explain the concept of 'voices' and look at how it works in various samples of writing.
Do you find it difficult to say exactly what you mean when you're writing? Does your writing just not look right? In this workshop, we'll look at a few techniques to help you write with clarity and precision. A workshop designed to help you write with clarity and precision, as you're required to do if you're going to be successful in your assessed work. It's not easy to get across exactly what you mean when writing. In this workshop, we'll not only look at the importance of writing clearly and precisely in assessment criteria; we'll explore techniques – such as sentence structure – that will help you to say what you mean.
This workshop considers the central role writing structure can play in firstly developing your academic understanding and argument in relation to a topic area and secondly communicating it clearly in written format by developing your command of nuanced critical vocabulary and academic phraseology.
What are your concerns about writing for assessment? What feedback have you had about your own writing? In this workshop, we'll explore some of the key features of high quality writing. We'll also consider the purpose of writing, as seen through assessment criteria. Join us to revisit some of the key ideas about writing for assessment in light of any feedback you've received.
This new workshop takes a fresh approach to the topic of ‘writing for assessment’. Through exemplars and task-based activities, we examine what tutors expect to see when it comes to writing in assessment contexts, its core features, and the different forms writing takes depending on the genre of assessment you’re working on. Its purpose is to build up your awareness of what tutors are looking for in your writing, how to develop a suitable writing style, and the broader value of writing and its development to your growing identity as a graduate.