Academic Writing Skills Library

To link your sentences correctly, you can use transition words to improve clarity and flow.

In contrast to language used for presentations or lectures, academic writing is much more formal and is characterized by certain features.

This guide is the second of three looking at the purpose and process of conducting a literature review.

This guide provides the basic rules of incorporating figures and tables in your writing.

When you write an experimental report, or draft a thesis chapter, you need to choose which tense, or tenses, to use. Read this document to learn how to use these tenses.

A concise break-down of the tenses to use in the various sections of a research report (including example sentences).

A concise list of verb tenses used in Scientific writing with easy examples and signal words.

The academic word list is a list of words that appear with high frequency in English-language academic texts.

A short quiz on word order.

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