If you'd like to improve your academic or general writing, this is where you need to be!
Check out the following:
Online resources:
- Punctuation, from GrammarBook.com
- Writing a Paper (online pdf) by George M. Whitesides of Harvard University
- Manchester University writing lab, with information about:
- planning
- key phrases used in essay title
- avoiding plagiarism -
Using English for Academic Purposes writing lab, with information about:
- research questions
- organization
- research
- language functions
- citation
How to ...? English helpsheets for emailing, writing articles and reports, describing statistics, explaining mathematical equations, etc.:
- Emailing (pdf), compiled by a UCL English coach
- Report writing language (pdf),compiled by a UCL English coach
- Useful language functions for academic writing (pdf), compiled by UCL English coaches
- Writing summaries (pdf), compiled by a UCL English coach
- Checking and improving first drafts (pdf), compiled by a UCL English coach>
- Guidelines for writing articles pdf in the British Medical Journal, compiled by a UCL English coach, including referencing and bibliographies
- Describing statistics (pdf), compiled by a UCL English coach
- Explaining equations in writing (pdf), compiled by a UCL English coach and Prof. J. Louveaux, UCL