A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for graduate students.) ...

Metadiscourse encompasses the linguistic devices writers use to organise their text, convey their stance and engage readers. In academic writing it serves dual purposes: interactive metadiscourse ...

Fiona Ellwood says that writing at a higher level is an art and a craft and comes with practice and experience. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. One of the ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...

Academic writing skills are fundamental to most university courses. Andrew Struan explains how Glasgow has taken a whole-university approach to ensure all students are well equipped to succeed ...

An abstract is a concise, compelling statement that summarises a larger piece of work. They are useful for researchers to select relevant evidence, and for indexing purposes by search databases. By ...

What is a Literature Review? A literature review is an essential component of academic research, particularly at the postgraduate level. Whilst there are various types of literature reviews, it ...

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Communicating the worth of your work to the academic world – and beyond – starts with writing. Writing for a journal, turning your work into a book or reviewing existing research all require distinct ...

If you’ve ever made friends with an unwieldy textbook or spent the night trawling through online libraries for journal papers to support a soon-to-be due essay, you’ve probably lamented the boring and ...