Academic Writing

From this page you can access a series of activities to help you develop your writing skills.

Below is a list of sub-topics of writing. Each sub-topic contains groups of tasks and there is also a short description of each task.

To use these activities, do the following:

1. Read the writing categories below.
2. Click the category you are interested in to find out more.
3. Read the information about the activities before selecting.

• Definitions
• Paragraph structure
• Text organisation
• Paraphrasing and summarising
• Referring to other sources
• Expressing cause and effect
• Grammar in writing
• Writing dissertations
• Describing graphic data