Self-Study Material Improve Your Writing
General advice for academic writing:
Paragraph writing:
Grammar:
- https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar
- http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/inhalt_grammar.htm
- http://www.grammarbook.com/
Books:
- Betty Azar’s, Fundamentals of English Grammar (intermediate)
- Understanding and Using English Grammar (advanced)
- Raymond Murphy’s English Grammar in Use (intermediate)
Academic Phrasebank, University of Manchester:
Helpful English phrases for academic writing arranged by function and by the sections of a research paper. “The items … are mostly content neutral and generic in nature; in using them, therefore, you are not stealing other people’s ideas and this does not constitute plagiarism. For some of the entries, specific content words have been included for illustrative purposes, and these should be substituted when the phrases are used….Designed primarily for academic and scientific writers who are non-native speakers of English.” (http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/ )
Essay writing:
Writing a thesis or dissertation:
Paraphrasing and summarizing:
- https://emedia.rmit.edu.au/learninglab/sites/default/files/Paraphrasing_2013_Accessible.pdf
- http://studyskills.curtin.edu.au/academicintegrity/paraphrasing-and-summarising/
- https://www.lsbm.ac.uk/assets/pdf/paraphrasing_summarising_lecture_exercises.pdf
- https://integrity.mit.edu/handbook/academicwriting/avoiding-plagiarism-paraphrasing
- http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/insess/litrev/summary/paraphrase%201.htm
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe-writing-centre/reference-effectively-avoid-plagiarism/paraphrasing
- https://integrity.mit.edu/handbook/academic-writing/summarizing
Plagiarism:
Referencing:
- http://www.citethisforme.com/guides
- https://integrity.mit.edu/handbook/citing-your-sources/avoiding-plagiarism-cite-your-source
Books: For footnotes (in American style): Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers. For British style referencing: Pears & Shield’s Cite them Right.
Excellent websites for Author-Date (Harvard) referencing:
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