Managing feelings about feedback
'Use feedback to make your writing stronger and give you the tools to keep improving.'
Where’s the conflict?
Identifying opposing elements in your work can expose underlying conflicts and reveal potential themes.
Don’t be boring
Try to avoid starting sentences with 'There is' and search for more interesting alternatives.
Make your text more readable
According to Dr Alison Yeung Yam Wah at the University of Surrey, who researches the writing strategies of academics, ‘readability’ is one of the key ingredients of successful academic papers. Yet academic writers frequently make their text hard to read…
Sharing students’ concerns
Written assignments can be particularly challenging for students whose first language is not English but there are ways to alleviate anxieties around writing.
How to write more concisely
A little editing goes a long way to making your writing clearer.
Add verbal highlights
Want to inject energy into your writing? Try turbocharging your verbs to make your writing more powerful - James McConnachie explains how.
