Word-Level Issues in Academic Writing
Try hard to avoid ambiguous references
Conversation is replete with ambiguous words like "this", "these", "his",…
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A Checklist of Academic Writing Features
Academic writing in English is linear, that means it has one central point or theme with every part contributing to…
Informal vs. Academic Language
Informal Speaking Vocabulary
Academic Writing Vocabulary
What is the difference?a lot of…
Six Features of Academic Writing
One of the problems students run into is that they are often expected by their professors to produce a reasonably…
Rules and Conventions of Academic Writing
The details in this hand-out are based on material first developed by Hazel Hall at Queen Margaret University…
Myths about Academic Writing
Though I don’t imagine an episode of MythBusters will be based on the misconceptions about writing we are about to…
Does an Engineering Thesis Need a Hypothesis?
What is the hypothesis?
The hypothesis is all important. It is the foundation of your thesis. It gives coherence…
Write with the Reader in Mind!
This article is suitable for science & engineering studentsAll communication involves two parties: the…
Attikiouzel’s Aphorisms for Thesis Writing
Writing is not a linear process but a cyclic one. What appears first may be written last, with the benefit of…
Lindsay’s Laws of Thesis Writing
> Think > Plan > Write > Revise >
This is the cycle of scientific writing. Messy thinking leads…