Course: An Intermediate Guide to Writing in English for University Study

Look back at “Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Millennium Development Goal Impact”, from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Read through the section titled “The Push for Privatisation”. …

In this video you will see how the sentences provided in the previous Step are correctly organised in the finished paragraph. Did you get the sentences in the correct order? …

Paragraphs consist of three key elements: the paragraph leader, supporting sentences and concluding sentence. In this video Jonathan identifies and explores the purpose of each element, and explains how to …

You need to use paragraphs in your academic essay so that your reader understands the organisation of the text and can return to different points to re-read if necessary. What …

Effective academic writing combines short sentences, and longer, more complex ones. Accurate sentence structure helps the reader to break down sentences, particularly long ones, into units of meaning, and to …

Sentence structure is a very complex area, and on this course you do not need to be able to analyse sentences in a lot of detail. However, some understanding is …

There are different levels of structure within written language. A good way to remember these is through the diagram below. Text A text is a complete piece of writing. A …

One useful way to develop your vocabulary it is to get into the habit of learning groups of words which are related to one another through their meaning and form. …

This Week you explored: How to search for and identify relevant information sources. Different techniques for reading widely, around a subject. The SQ3R technique for reading efficiently, making notes and …

Look at the sample notes below. How do these notes compare with your notes? Look at comments column – do you agree with the comments or do you have any …

The SQ3R strategy helps you to read efficiently and take notes of the most relevant information for your academic essay. Take a look at what SQ3R means: In this video, …

Remember that in your academic writing you need to include references to source texts you have read. Once you have found a text which is useful for your writing purpose, …

Once you have selected your texts, you will need to read in different ways depending on the information you need for your essay. Read for background information – here you …

As mentioned before, the quality of content on the internet is very variable, and much of it is unsuitable for use on an academic assignment. There are a number of …

There are many different search engines you can use, and people tend to have their own preferences related to the type of searches they conduct. Google Scholar searches databases of …