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Using Word to structure your report, dissertation or thesis

9 April 2018 by Hilary Trick Leave a Comment

Microsoft Word contains some wonderful features which can save you time and stress – and help you to create clear and academically appropriate writing. Some of its most useful tools enable you to create mulitilevel lists of headings which are stable no matter how much you ‘play about’ with your document, and can then turn […]

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Which tense should I choose?

4 January 2018 by Hilary Trick Leave a Comment

Choosing the correct tense for academic writing is not always easy. When you are writing about everyday happenings it’s generally a fairly simple task for native speakers, but not always so if English isn’t your first language. Here are some examples, with the relevant tense shown in brackets: • What I did a year ago: […]

Filed Under: Language, Writing Tagged With: language, writing tips

What is ‘Harvard referencing’?

21 November 2017 by Hilary Trick Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever struggled with Harvard referencing (and the small but annoying differences imposed by your university or department), you may have wondered what it really is and where it comes from. Next time you’re halfway through a piece of writing and wondering why you still can’t remember whether something’s italic or roman, “quoted” or […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: writing tips

Advice for ESL writers from Yale University

5 September 2017 by Hilary Trick Leave a Comment

Here is some simple but very useful advice about particular issues for multilingual/ESL (English as a second language) academic writers, from the Yale University Center for Teaching and Learning. In particular I like the suggestion that starting to write early about the ‘big picture’ of your topic or research will make the whole process of […]

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How to write a great research paper

2 August 2017 by Hilary Trick Leave a Comment

If you want to raise the quality of your writing from average to excellent, you will find Professor Simon Peyton Jones – of Microsoft Research, Cambridge – the perfect guide to producing papers which will interest and engage your readers from the first sentence to the last. As a supervisor for PhD students at the […]

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