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)