How to improve your academic English

Whether you are a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD student, academic English writing skills are essential for your studies. This book helps you improve your skills, either to gain more confidence or to move to the next level.

Based on a corpus analysis of student writing across a wide range of disciplines, the book addresses the issues that remain for students after they have done a basic course in academic writing. Each individual problem is exemplified and succinctly described. Improvements are proposed and an explanation given for why they are more effective. The book also contains exercises for further practice, as well as general advice on the writing process and how best to deal with AI.

The chapters can be studied independently of each other and can be read in any order. Successfully tackling each topic will help you become a more confident and skilled writer, in the best position to make the best choices to get your message across clearly and effectively.

Requesting Answer Keys

For this edition, the answers to the exercises are available upon request. Are you a teacher and would you like to receive the answer keys? Please send an email to info@vuuniversitypress.nl and include the following information:

• the title of the publication;
• your position;
• the institution and degree programme where you work;
• the name of the course you teach.