Academic Writing Skills Library

This website introduces you to a range of stylistic features commonly found in technical documents that affect readability and rhetorical effectiveness.

There are conventions for using figures and tables in a report; this website tells you all about these conventions.

This very brief tutorial shows you how to use effective linking words in your writing, so that it flows in a logical and cohesive way.

The aim of a literature review is to determine what is known on a topic, how well this knowledge is established and where future research might best be directed.

Find out how best to use Mendeley and get to know some of its features.

Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence.

Study the explanations of the modal verbs and complete the associated exercises to take another step toward English fluency.

This page gives an overview of the use of modal verbs.

A detailed list of linking words organized according to their purpose and meaning.

This document discusses the features of a good paragraph and improving the links between paragraphs.