A quick guide to different purposes of paragraphs in academic writing.

A guide to writing paragraphs including a 5-step process and troubleshooting advice.

A very brief guide to paraphrasing and summarising, and a slightly longer guide to using quotations.

A collection of downloadable pdf guides including: writing CVs, business emails and letters; and basic grammar guides.

A 23-unit course with videos and exercises to prepare for study at university

A pdf of materials and slides from a workshop on cohesion including vocabulary and examples

An online quiz with feedback to help you understand what is and isn't plagiarism.

An essay largely on paraphrasing and summarising, with examples and tips.

A fairly brief introduction to reflective writing from Cambridge University

A collection of web pages on different aspects of reflective writing including many useful links.

A comprehensive guide to reflective writing from the University of Hull library.

A fairly brief but effective guide to reflective writing from the University of Portsmouth. Includes a downloadable pdf summary.

7 online exercises to learn and practice replacing informal with academic language.

A list of reporting verbs organised by whether they express approval or disapproval of the reported ideas. There is a pdf version which can be downloaded.

A quick guide to the two types of quotation, using them effectively, and using them carefully.

A brief guide giving simple but useful rules for improving the improvability of your writing.

A collection of advice on Study skills

An academic writing handbook chapter on supporting claims in academic writing.

A very brief explanation of synthesising with some helpful examples

A guide to criticality from a university lecturer with links to a 10-minute video presentation. A useful summary.

Berger's slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author of 60 published books, the author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. He has suggestions for getting the "turgid" out of turgid academic prose and offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents for effective communication. Written in Berger's friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.

Guide to writing lab reports with a downloadable pdf version available.

A guide to the 'quotation sandwich' technique to ensure that you're using quotations successfully.

The four main parts of Academic Writing are:

A 5-page pdf with plenty of advice on time management.

The errors referred to in the name are grammar (usually sentence structure), vocabulary and punctuation errors.

UCL's main page for Academic Integrity with links to other resources.

One-to-one and group writing help for international students from the UCLU

An introductory guide to academic writing style, with online practice exercises.