Academic writing courses have historically served as a kind of gate-keeping measure. In North America and other settler colonial societies, such courses have traditionally imparted skills and ...

A key function of any introduction is to present your argument in such a way that your audience can enter the conversation and properly engage with your paper. Key questions to think about as you ...

An introduction to academic reading, writing and critical thinking skills required for postgraduate study. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course ...

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 ...

A hands-on workshop for Nordic scholars meant to give recent PhDs and PhD candidates useful help in writing academic English 2–4 April 2020 in Stockholm. The three-day course Academic Writing in ...

Writing an effective literature review is a core component of academic research. Beyond summarizing prior studies, it helps identify research gaps, justify new inquiries, and position research within ...

There’s been much discussion about the needless complexity of academic writing. In a widely read article in The Chronicle of Higher Education last year, Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at ...