ACADEMIC ESSAY WRITING For students at Charles Darwin University A resource to assist tutors working with Indigenous students Table of Contents Purpose of this booklet This booklet aims to provide resources to tutors who work with Indigenous students at Charles Darwin University. It is intended to provide you with information and exercises to assist you to scaffold students to be successful in their university studies. We focus on writing academic essays‚ because this is a skill student’s need
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University of Dalat – Department of Foreign Languages WRITING ACADEMIC PARAGRAPHS Writing Effective Paragraphs A paragraph should be unified‚ coherent‚ and well developed. Paragraphs are unified around a main point‚ and all sentences in the paragraph should clearly relate to that point in some way. The paragraph’s main idea should be supported with specific information that develops or discusses the main idea in greater detail. Creating a Topic Sentence The topic sentence expresses the main
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Student Learning Development Services Academic Writing 0800 MASSEY (627 739) www.massey.ac.nz Academic Writing: A Guide to Tertiary Level Writing Edited by Dr Natilene Bowker 2007 Academic Writing: A Guide to Tertiary Level Writing | i Welcome to Academic Writing! This resource has been designed for Massey University students who are new to the conventions of academic writing. Many students‚ including extramural‚ internal‚ and both domestic and international‚ may find this
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Academic Writing Guide UTS LIBRARY February 2013 Academic Writing Guide Overview: This guide provides explanations‚ examples and advice on the different aspects of academic writing‚ including assignment types‚ grammar and research writing. 2 Welcome to the UTS Academic Writing Guide 1. Why do I need this guide? The aim of this guide is to give you a place to come and find explanations‚ examples and advice about different aspects of academic writing. When you have a question about your
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How do you feel about writing academic papers? If you have enjoyed writing in the past‚ what did you like about the process of writing? If you have not enjoyed it‚ why not? Did you have any of the misconceptions about writing discussed in Chapter 1 of the text? What did you learn in the chapter that you think might be helpful to you in writing papers here at Ashford University? I do not like writing academic papers. It is very time consuming and some require doing a lot of research on the topic
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Academic Writing Skills Even if you have perfect English skills you will not get top grades for your assignments if you do not answer the question asked. Many students prepare pages of perfect script and are then shocked when they receive poor grades – the usual problem is that they have not answered the question set for them to do. So how do you get this task right? A good answer will always: Follow the specific directions/tasks Identify and address the subject/topic in the question Use the required
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CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES‚ UNIMAS PBI 1032: ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING Learning Unit 2: READING SKILLS By the end of this session‚ you should be able to: identify what the writer has stated literally (read the lines) infer what the writer has stated (read between the lines) apply ideas within the text to what you already know (read beyond the lines) A. Reading Academic Texts Academic texts are relatively formal in structure and style. They might be textbooks or just straightforward
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Academic Writing in English∗ Dr Radu Negoescu‚ RKC January 22‚ 2012 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Common English mistakes 2 3 Academic writing 3.1 Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Clarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.1 Referencing using the Harvard method 3.3.2 Conventions for the Bibliography . . . 3.4 Assignment front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 Presentation of your assignment
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of Academic Writing Posted: Aug 26‚ 2009 By James Alex Sourse: http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/features-of-academic-writing-1161713.html Academic writing is a particular style of formal and expressive writing. It’s a third-person and formally-toned writing. It gives clear opinion on topic. In this form of writing‚ we choose very formal and precise words. Academic writings are of different types such as: • Academic review writing • Academic essay writing • Academic paper
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Write a 4 page essay comparing and contrasting academic writing and creating writing. One of the great things about the English language is that with its various modes of structure and the wide variety of nuance that can be utilized‚ there are almost as many styles and sub-genres of writing as there are writers who ply it as a trade. It goes without saying‚ or rather it should to anyone who has ever studied writing and/or literature‚ that practically each and every publication from the tiniest
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