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 College in November 1998....
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 persuasive argument,...
Informal vs. Academic Language" " References: UTS Library. (2013). Academic Writing Guide Part 1 - Academic Writing. UTS Universty #ZaidAAlsmadi...
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 the main line of...
Rules for Formal Academic Writing" Rules for formal writing are quite strict, though often unstated. Formal writing is used in academic and scientific settings whenever...
Word-Level Issues in Academic Writing" Try hard to avoid ambiguous references Conversation is replete with ambiguous words like "this", "these", "his", "it", "they", etc....
Discussing Existing/Proposed/Future Work" Discussing existing work Whenever you bring up an existing piece of research, whether it is your own or someone else's, there is a...
Guidelines Specific to Academic Writing" Formatting and grammar rules When in doubt about grammar or page format, researchers in psychology and computer science generally...
Academic English: "I" and "we"!" Writing standards disagree about whether to use "I" and "we" (and their various forms) in academic work. Some argue that those personal...
Punctuation after quotations" In American English (and in some cases for British English), punctuation following a bit of quoted text is traditionally placed inside...