Here are some resources from around the globe that can help you to develop your academic writing in English.
Sites on academic writing
- The Purdue Online Writing Lab is an excellent and comprehensive resource for writers:
- https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl
- Academic Writing in English at Lund University (AWELU) is another good resource for Swedish students learning to write academic texts in English:
- http://awelu.srv.lu.se
Tools for improving your vocabulary
- The Compleat Lexical Tutor offers a multitude of useful tools for improving your vocabulary:
- http://www.lextutor.ca
Tools for your smartphone
- The UCL Survey of English Usage has produced the Academic Writing in English app for smartphones designed to help students learn all about writing in English:
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/apps/awe
- There are numerous apps for your smartphone or iPad that can help you take better notes, such as Notability, by Ginger Labs:
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notability-handwriting-note/id360593530
Corpus resources
- We encourage our students to use corpus tools to imrprove their writing. One excellent site that gives you access to several different corpora is Mark Davies' site corpora.byu.edu:
- http://corpus.byu.edu
- If you are interested in seeing what different sorts of copora there are out there, you might want to see David Lee's Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists:
- http://tiny.cc/corpora