‘Your academic writing isn’t academic enough.’
Focus on using powerful, single-word verbs to make your writing more formal.
Don’t be boring
Try to avoid starting sentences with 'There is' and search for more interesting alternatives.
Reading as a writer
To improve our writing, we need to learn to read as writers, identifying the work we admire.
Show or tell?
A big beginning tells the reader something while a small beginning shows the reader an image.
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…
Cats, dogs and quotations
When you use a quotation in your writing, make sure you get the most out of it.
Go for the metaphor
Using carefully chosen similes and metaphors can make your reader sit up and take note.