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Academic Writing

For many students, regardless of their language level, academic writing presents a real challenge. Browse some of the sites below and bookmark the ones you find useful.

• Andy Gillett’s website, Using English for Academic Purposes, is one of the best known and is much loved by teachers and students. It covers listening, reading, writing and speaking skills and has a very useful section of links to other Academic English sites
• The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick has some very useful academic English exercises.
• Academic Phrasebank - a very useful site from the University of Manchester listing useful phrases to use in academic writing

Updated: 2 September, 2010 | English language support service | Legal