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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...
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