Guide to Academic Writing
03/10/2012
The kind of writing you’re
required to learn and be able to write at university is academic writing. This is also the writing type demanded in
international tests such as TOEFL or IELTS. Many universities in English-speaking
countries have websites specialising in helping students with academic writing,
with useful sections on paragraph and essay structures, English grammar,
punctuations,… The websites below may be useful for your Writing subjects, or writing scientific research papers.
Well, you don’t need to look at all of them, just pick one
or two, of your favourite. And these resources are used
for studying purposes only; be careful about copyright:
Easy to understand:
HyperGrammar, from the
University of Ottawa, Canada: http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/
Purdue Online Writing Lab, from
Purdue University:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/678/01/
Difficult:
Clearer Writing, from the
University of Sydney, Australia: http://learningcentre.usyd.edu.au/clearer_writing/index.html
The Online Writing and Learning
Link, from Massey University, New Zealand (more suitable for writing research
papers): http://owll.massey.ac.nz/
From organisations:
UEfAP, supported by BALEAP
(easy, very good and reliable): http://www.uefap.com/index.htm
Essay Writing Guide, from the
Royal Literary Fund, UK (more suitable for writing research papers): http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/writing/essayguide.cfm
Punctuation Made Simple, by Gary
A.Olson, hosted by The College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State
University (easy and interesting): http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/