Writing and Presentations
Introduction
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This section will help you with writing: essays, reports and reflective writing. You will also find information about creating and delivering presentations.
Check out the pages in the menu for tips and videos.
Writing Guides
- Academic Writing Guide - Features of Academic WritingLearn about features of academic writing such as organisation, structure, and formality
- Academic Writing Guide - Concise WritingThis guide shows how to reduce word count and eliminate unnecessary information.
- Academic Writing Guide - Editing your DraftFind tips and examples to guide you through editing your writing
- Academic Writing Guide - Fixing Common ErrorsFind tips for fixing common writing errors such as overly long sentences and poor structure
- Academic Writing Guide - Logic, Flow and HedgingImprove your paragraphs with the words and phrases (discourse markers) in this guide
- Academic Writing Guide - ParaphrasingLearn the Do's and Don't's of putting others' ideas into your own words, and view a step-by-step guide to practising paraphrasing
- Academic Writing Guide - Passive VoiceLearn the difference between active and passive voice and when you might use passive structures in academic writing
- Academic Writing Guide - Reflective WritingThis guide discusses four self-reflection frameworks to use when reflecting. It also discusses pronouns and how to use the past, present and future tenses.
- Academic Writing - Critical Reading and Literary DevicesThis guide will help you analyse an article by showing you how to consider the literary devices that reflect the biases of the writer.