Language Development - Writing in English for Academic Writing

Language Development - Writing in English for Academic Writing

This video covers concepts like word families and noun phrases, sentence structure, summary nouns, prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs, impersonal language, cautious language. Includes video text and guidance document.

This guide was written for people with English as an additional language but will be useful to anyone who is new to the principles of academic writing.

These video clips have been made available by the University of Reading and come from our successful An Intermediate Guide to Writing in English for Academic Writing. A free online course from the University of Reading available on the FutureLearn platform.

Visit futurelearn.com site and search ‘An Intermediate Guide to Writing in English for Academic Writing’ for the full course (free without certificates option available).

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