Academic Writing for Doctorands | 2018/19

Online Resources

BBC Learning English , British Council Learn English , Learn English Today

Phonetic transcription of English words
Oxford Learner's Dictionary , Oxford Living Dictionary,  Cambridge Dictionary: Grammar
Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Phrase Finder , Online Etymology Dictionary

Academic Phrasebank (Univ. Manchester), UEfAP (Using English for Academic Purposes), Academic Writing in English (Finnish Virtual University)
Word and Phrase.info , Academic Vocabulary
Corpus Concordance English (Compleat Lexical Tutor), British National Corpus, Corpus of Contemporary American English , British Academic English Corpus
Explorations of Style
(blog), The Impact Blog (LSE)

Jones, Quinn, Brown, Writing for Sociology, Dept Sociology, Univ. California, Berkeley, 2011

26 October

Kane, Essential Guide to Writing, Basic Structure.
How to write paragraphs in research texts (Patrick Dunleavy, LSE Impact Blog)
Paragraphs, flow and connectivity: Slides (Oli Johnson)

2 November


9 November

it/this/that, it or this, exercises
Kane, Essential Guide to Writing, Paragraph Unity

16 November

multiple

23 November

Making good arguments

30 November



7 December


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Susan Sontag, A Woman's Beauty--A Put Down or Power Source (Vogue, 1975)
Paragraphs, Reverse outlines ( Explorations of Style)
The paragraph, Tradition and the Individual Paragraph (1), (2)(3) (blog posts, T. Basbøll)
Choosing article titles (LSE Impact Blog)
use/ utilize/ employ