Advice on academic style in writing

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Advice on academic style in writing
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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A bank of useful phrases to use in introductions, conclusions by John
Morley at Manchester University
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/links.htm
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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
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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
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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/
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Brunel University provides a list of comprehensive books on academic
writing http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/subguides/studyskills/studybooks
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