Improved Academic Writing

Academic Writing Resources on this website

• Writing paragraphs that achieve the best grades

• Writing Lab Reports

• Reporting Verbs for Sport and Exercise Science

• Referencing more effectively

More resources on other websites

• Academic Phrasebank - from The University of Manchester [click here]

• Become your own editor - from The University of South Australia [click here]

• Academic English online [click here]

• Academic Writing Skills - Learning Resources from the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/gothedistance/academicwriting

• How to write an introduction - UNE - [click here]

• How to write a conclusion - UNE [click here]

• How to structure a paragraph

• How to create authoritative voice in your writing - Dr Inger Mewburn [click here]

• Writing for science - University of Leicester [click here]

• Writing academically - University of Reading [click here]

• Excelsior Online Writing Lab - https://owl.excelsior.edu/writing-process/

• How to write paragraphs - [writing for research]

• A Short Guide to Reflective Writing by The University of Birmingham

• Reflective Writing Guide from Plymouth University

• An interactive resource on Reflective Writing from Bath Uni

• Click here for more info on lab reports (Univ of Toronto)

• Designing Conference posters - by Colin Purrington [click here]

• Andy Field's handout "How to produce a lab report in APA style" [click here]

• Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan. [full text]

• Whitesides, G. M. (2004). Whitesides' group: writing a paper. Advanced Materials, 16(15), 1375-1377. [www]

• Marjon Generic Grade Descriptors [click here]

• Learn to type [click here]

Further Reading

• Billig, M. (2013). Learn to write badly: How to succeed in the social sciences. Cambridge University Press.

• Sword, H. (2016). The writer’s diet: A guide to fit prose. University of Chicago Press.

• Becker, H. S. (2008). Writing for social scientists: How to start and finish your thesis, book, or article. University of Chicago Press.

• Heard, S. B. (2016). The scientist's guide to writing: how to write more easily and effectively throughout your scientific career. Princeton University Press. [google books]

• Hotaling, S. (2020). Simple rules for concise scientific writing. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. [https://courses.pbsci.ucsc.edu/eeb/bioe200a/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Simple-rules-for-concise-scientific-writing.pdf]

• Sword, H. (2017). Air & light & time & space: How successful academics write. Harvard University Press.

• Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper (2019) - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02918-5