English
for Academic Purposes | 2020
Writing Point website (CJP FSV UK).
Writing Point Blog
21 February
Similar pairs often used in academic writing (drawn from Same or different worksheet, UsingEnglish.com)
R. Lanham, animated guide to Revising Prose
The Paramedic Method and Reverse Paramedic Method (Purdue OWL)
synonyms for obvious and
imbue.
28 February
Introduction to P. Shor, Polynomial-Time Algorithms for
Prime Factorization and
Discrete Logarithms on a
Quantum Computer (SIAM Review, 1999)
with a grain of salt (The Phrase Finder)
6 March
27 March
Susan Sontag, Disease as a political metaphor (NYRB)
heyday
3 April
Yuval Noah Harari, The world after coronavirus (FT - article comes with an audio reading of it, 19'28").
Rebecca Solnit, `The impossible has already happened' (Guardian)
17 April
24 April
15 May
22 May
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Sentences (Explorations of Style)
Theme and rheme (ELT Concourse)
How to write paragraphs in research texts (Patrick Dunleavy)
articles (Univ. Adelaide), Article Basics (Walden Univ.), definite and indefinite articles (Waylink English)
Andrew Abbott, The future of expert knowledge (lecture)
Spike Milligan, Selected Poems (Poemhunter)
Michael Rosen, extract from Book of Very Silly Poems
,
10 Silly Poems
Lane Greene on
Editing (BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth)
How
to write (advice for univeristy students, Thomas Basbøll)
The paragraph,
Tradition and the
Individual Paragraph (1), (2), (3) (blog
posts, T. Basbøll)
Paragraphs ( Explorations of Style)