Rules for Formal Academic Writing
Rules for formal writing are quite strict, though often unstated. Formal writing is used in academic and scientific…
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Word-Level Issues in Academic Writing
Try hard to avoid ambiguous references
Conversation is replete with ambiguous words like "this", "these", "his",…
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…
Expressions to be Avoided in Writing a Scientific Paper or Thesis
Ten categories of cumbersome expressions that should be AVOIDED in writing a scientific paper or thesis...