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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: […]

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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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Reading paper books vs ebooks

4 July 2017 by Hilary Trick Leave a Comment

Do you feel as though you forget most of what you read online or on your Kindle or iPad? You may not be alone. A fascinating article delves into research revealing the differences between the way we process information from differing platforms – chiefly physical books vs information from screens. I certainly feel that I […]

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‘Hedging’ – or being cautious in academic writing

1 November 2016 by Hilary Trick Leave a Comment

British people certainly love their garden hedges, but what does the word ‘hedging’ mean when applied to academic writing? It bears some relationship to the idea of a hedge containing something in a soft, gentle way, unlike the sharp lines of a fence or wall. In everyday speech and writing hedging uses certain words and […]

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