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The Academic Collocations List is a researched list of the most common academic phrases/word combinations that you'll need at university. Very useful for writing.
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The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation.
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Build your topic vocabulary with these mini-dictionaries, which are groups of words related to common subject areas. Choose a topic area from the list below to get started.
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There are many definitions of collocation. We think of collocations in the same way as expressed by Benson et al.: "In any language, certain words combine with certain other words or grammatical constructions. These recurrent, semi-fixed combinations, or collocations, can be divided into two groups: grammatical collocations and lexical collocations."
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The Oxford Text Checker will check the vocabulary in any text against three lists: Oxford 3000™, Oxford 2,000 keywords and Academic Word List.
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If you are studying in a British university you will be required to do a large amount of writing, whatever your subject. The type of writing you do will depend on your subject. On this website, these different types of writing are called Genres or Genre Families.
There are 10 sublists, and each sublist has 6 groups. So, plenty of exercises to practise your academic vocabulary.
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This is where you'll find resources on writing skills. You can access the full list below, or if you're working on an essay, why not take the Writing essays tour, which provides additional advice and guidance?In addition, you might also find it helpful to attend a related workshop or come to see us for a consultation.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
Audio and Video Lectures has loads of academic podcasts to listen to on a range of topics.
Just-the-word will help you improve your vocabulary choice by showing you how words collocate (=go together) e.g. adjectives + nouns, verbs + nouns, adverbs + adjectives etc.
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