English
for Academic Purposes | 2018/19
National Poetry Day: Change,
Love in the Age of Google,
Multidisciplinary perspectives on love (Brian Bilston)
5 October
Articles and clips
What
makes our writing 'academic'? (blog post, Academic Emergence,
Julia Molinari)
Grammar and vocabulary
assume,
presume
- assume
or presume?, [Corpus
Concordance]
Dr Livingstone, I presume?, Do
not presume...
critique,
criticism
tally
12 October
Grammar and vocabulary
assume,
presume,
assume vs. presume
appropriate,
apposite,
apt
Fill in the blanks for assume/presume,
apposite/appropriate/apt.
Skeptics and scepticism
(Guardian)
Hippasus (and the square root of 2)
19 October
Pronunciation exercises (F. Ludescher)
2 November
use, utilize, utilize
usage, utility
Fill in the blanks for use/utilize.
9 November
Collins Word of the Year, Collins Dictionary 2018 word of the year revealed (Irish Times)
comprehend, understand, appreciate
Fill in the blanks for understand/comprehend/appreciate.
16 November
Etymology of understand, cf. Greek epistamai
one take on the difference between significant and important
Fill in the blanks for significant/important.
John Street, Music as Political Communication
23 November
Online collocation dictionary
harbinger
A. Sokal, Transgressing the Boundaries, Social Text #46/47 (1996),
30 November
like, as (Oxford),
like (preposition), like (conjunction), as (Merriam-Webster)
as and like (British Council Grammar),
as and like, exercise on as/like.
as and like (BBC)
like vs. such as,
the difference between like and such as
A likely story: ``like" vs. ``such as", Good grammar or good taste?
(Grammarphobia)
New Fowler's Modern English Usage on like, as and such as
Fill in the blanks for as/like.
adjourn
7 December
Whose for inanimate objects (Merriam-Webster)
Who or whom? (Oxford Dict.), who or whom? (Oxford Dict. blog)
That, who or which?
Relative clauses, Relative clauses,
Relative pronouns (British Council, with exercises)
Who vs. that
16 December
relationship vs. relation (Oxford Dictionary)
Relationships and relations (BBC)
Special Relationship
Fill in the blanks for relation/relationship
enquire or inquire.
4 January 2019
Brian Bilston, My resolution will not be televised,
after Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Evie Shockley, On New Year's Eve, fey, edacious, callithump.
Devilled eggs (foodtimeline.org)
have a gander