“To write a really good paper you need to make a case for its originality, significance, and rigour.” – @AnnaVignoles
— FERSA (@fersacambridge) February 18, 2019
Tag: academic writing
Cómo citar fuentes procedentes de la web social en tus trabajos @JulianMarquina
Academic English as seen by @joshuarothman #appliedlinguistics #writing
Humanities School, Universidad de Murcia
“Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish—but that’s because academia has become that way, too. Today’s academic work, excellent though it may be, is the product of a shrinking system. It’s a tightly-packed, super-competitive jungle in there”.
Read the article by Joshua Rothman
Some English-language related Future-Learn MOOC courses starting soon
A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study. Starts January 19.
Exploring English: Language and Culture. Starts Feb. 2.
Cultural Studies and Modern Languages: an Introduction. Starts Feb 16.
The thesis whisperer: an excellent resource for academic English
The Thesis Whisperer is a blog newspaper dedicated to the topic of doing a thesis and is edited by Dr Inger Mewburn, Director of research training at the Australian National University.
What is a literature review?
Link to the resource by Anthony Curtis, Mass Communication Dept., University of North Carolina at Pembroke