Academic English

Writing standards disagree about whether to use “I” and “we” (and their various forms) in academic work. Some argue that…

In American English (and in some cases for British English), punctuation following a bit of quoted text is traditionally placed…

Formatting and grammar rules When in doubt about grammar or page format, researchers in psychology and computer science generally follow…

Rules for formal writing are quite strict, though often unstated. Formal writing is used in academic and scientific settings whenever…

Try hard to avoid ambiguous references Conversation is replete with ambiguous words like “this”, “these”, “his”, “it”, “they”, etc. These…

Academic writing in English is linear, that means it has one central point or theme with every part contributing to…

  Informal Speaking Vocabulary Academic Writing Vocabulary What is the difference? a lot of good/bad go up/go down/stay the same…

One of the problems students run into is that they are often expected by their professors to produce a reasonably…

The details in this hand-out are based on material first developed by Hazel Hall at Queen Margaret University College in…

Though I don’t imagine an episode of MythBusters will be based on the misconceptions about writing we are about to…