50 steps to improving your academic writing

... understood in the British university context? Introduction Purpose of this book 50 steps to improving your academic writing is primarily intended for students who are new to or inexperienced in academic ... English. • Unit E. Making your writing more academic Highlighting key aspects of good academic style. • Unit F. Developing your writing style Helping you make...

Ngày tải lên: 17/07/2014, 18:53

... society’. Try to develop your ability to read your work with fresh and critical eyes. Empathise with your reader. It may help to read aloud to yourself; that way you can be hyper-sensitive to your punctuation, ... instead of to It is an increasingly common mistake to use ‘and’ instead of to , e.g. ‘I want to try and learn a new skill’ instead of ‘I want to try to le...

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Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2012, 09:06

... reside and correct them or decide to follow up the pair-work with additional question-answer practice between student and teacher. Five Steps to Using Your Textbook to Build a More Dynamic EFL Conversation Class Stephen ... decided which words to substitute, they are given about 10 minutes to memorize the dialogue depending on difficulty. After 10 minutes, student pairs are as...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 11:10

... or a friend to sign on as your mutual accountability buddy. Check in with each other weekly to make sure you’ve each taken steps toward accomplishing your goals, and to assign next steps. 3. ... These are your milestones along the way to success. 3. Consider these goals to be a starting place. Plan to discuss and refine your goals with the help of support partn...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 11:32

... things from your mind, can be enough to give you some rest. Then you can come back to your task refreshed and able to attack it with renewed vigor. Temp your way to the top Want to take ... Klingon)? Knock yourself out. • Want to put it into Braille and leave copies at all your blind friends' hangouts? Be my guest. • Want to upload it to your...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 17:20

... sales. What we have to do is find ways to raise our profit margin. . . . We have to get more people to walk in to our stores. Obviously, the more people that walk into our stores, the more opportunities ... was to force yQu to apply this rule. Try to see "millions" of an item. And, try to get Action into your pictures. Action is always easy to rem...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:24

... Page 19/33 Fenton: Improving your technical writing Version 4.1 7. Writing that includes mathematics This section provides three of the most important rules to follow when your writing includes ... Page 18/33 Fenton: Improving your technical writing Version 4.1 BAD GOOD The product is not of a satisfactory nature The product is unsatisfactory The product is not of a...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... trying to say. The best way to do this is to repeat their argument back to them. You don’t have to agree. Saying “it sounds like this issue is very important to you” doesn’t mean that you have to ... purpose of your conversation. Don’t be distracted by side tracks. • Suggestions for opening the conversation include: ‐ I’d like to talk to you about. . . ‐ I want to b...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 13:20

... eliminating, and latching on to, if you don’t have a pretty firm grasp of your personal assets. So let’s carry on seeing how to refine that. What is your bottom line? There’s a story about George Bernard ... 21 How to get to the top (or wherever you want to get to) I was coaching an executive recently who, when asked what her skills were, said: Seeing the bigger picture, seeing...

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