You can access the Academic Writing Guide through the link in the main menu above.

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The Academic Writing Guide is an interactive web-based resource that introduces you to the research process and to argumentation. It has a Creative Commons licence making it free to use, and is designed for self-access. It consists of practice tasks and exemplars to help you research and write a discursive essay of your own.

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Using the Academic Writing Guide will help develop a range of academic skills such as:

• how to support your opinions with academic sources/evidence

• how to make effective use of the Library to find sources

• how to choose appropriate sources from the range on offer 

• how to skim read over chunks of irrelevant texts to find what is relevant 

• how to read and understand academic prose/journal articles 

• how to interpret an assessment task 

• how to develop a position on your topic (see the 'Argumentation' resources)

• how to incorporate ideas gained from your reading into your own writing  

Suggested citation: 
Robbins, S., & O’Reilly, C. (2020) Academic Writing Guide. Available at: 

https://www.academicwritingguide.co.uk/awg-home (Accessed: day Month year).