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| I have assembled the following collection of links and information on academic writing with my students in mind - but many of the connected sites might actually prove useful to anyone writing academic texts in English. | |||||||||
Formal conventions |
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| Conventions at LMU Munich | You will find the conventions students of English at LMU Munich should follow in writing their coursework here. Do not forget to print out the declaration on non-plagiarism and to attach it to your coursework! | ||||||||
| MLA | The style used by the MLA (Modern Language Association) for formatting and citing is very widespread in the humanities - though linguistics often follows slightly different conventions. A summary of various publication styles can be found at OpenColleges. | ||||||||
| Unified style sheet | Linguists may wish to follow the unified style sheet. These guidelines emerged from a discussion among the editors of several linguistics journals. | ||||||||
| Avoidable mistakes | Since I would like my students to avoid making the same mistakes as those students who came before, I have put a list of avoidable mistakes here. | ||||||||
Structure and content |
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| Advice | Many sites on the internet are devoted to academic writing and offer advice to students writing their coursework. I found the following particularly interesting: | ||||||||
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| Electronic resources | For empirical research papers, particularly in English linguistics, you may wish to take a look at my corpus and software links. | ||||||||
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Academic phrasebanks |
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The Manchester
phrasebank offers an extremely useful collection of
prefabricated chunks that can be used for particular functions, e.g. to
connect paragraphs, to summarise research etc. In addition, you may want to start your own collection of useful prefabs by underlining expressions in academic texts that you particularly like, and by collecting them in a Word file or an exercise book. |
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| There is also a bilingual German - English phrasebank at bab.la that permits checking the direct translation of expressions such as in Anlehnung an... | |||||||||
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Dictionaries |
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Are you at a loss for words? Then go directly to my free online dictionaries links. | ||||||
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More information | For more information on the English language that may help you with writing your coursework, go directly to my English language page. | |||||||
 by
Daniel Gramsch
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing
sound they make |
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