Advice on academic style in writing A very useful website giving clear advice and practice materials on the 6 key features of academic style is provided by Andy Gillet of the University of Hertfordshire www.uefap.com A set of concise printable guides produced by the University of Hull on the main feature academic.http://www.hull.ac.uk/studyadvice/LearningResources/Study GuidesPDFs/index.html Clear information from Glasgow Caledonian University on small things that make a big difference in academic writing. www.gcal.ac.uk/student/coursework/writing/conventions.html. A series of podcasts on critical thinking and writing developed by the University of Leeds http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/podcasts.php?PodcastEpisode=3 A useful briefing on how academic writing is different from high school writing from Dartmouth University http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/what.sht ml A bank of useful phrases to use in introductions, conclusions by John Morley at Manchester University http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/links.htm The Academic Word List was developed by Averil Coxhead It contains the 570 most commonly found headwords in written academic discourse.http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/awlinfo.shtml A profiling tool created by Tom Cobb that identifies how much academic vocabulary is in writing. You can copy and paste your work in and see how it does! http://lextutor.ca The Writing Machine created by the University of Hong Kong it has six sections to work through to learn about academic writing http://echkuhk/writingmachine/ Brunel University provides a list of comprehensive books on academic writing http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/subguides/studyskills/studybooks