Introduction to Academic Writing

Download and read the summary handouts from our academic skills workshops and other quick guides. To book a session on developing your academic writing, click here.

• A quick guide to academic writing, University of Cumbria - An introductory guide for students writing their first academic essay
   
• How to paraphrase. Queensland University of Technology - An engaging 6 minute animation, explaining how to paraphrase information and refer to others' work within your writing
   
• The Academic Phrasebank, University of Manchester - A collection of resources to help you construct an academic essay.
   
• Using ‘signpost’ words and phrases, University of East Anglia - How to connect your ideas into a logical argument and signal to the reader the structure of that argument.