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Revision as of 19:05, 11 September 2014
Welcome to AWE — a reference source for the details of Academic Writing in British English. AWE aims to give helpful advice, rather than to be prescriptive - it does not tell you what to do. It is not a dictionary or an encyclopedia. It is meant for students in Higher Education in the UK, including non-native speakers.
AWE has recently moved to a new site from its previous berth at the University of Hull. As part of the move, we have updated the mediawiki software on which it operates.
As a result, SOME CHARACTERS DO NOT DISPLAY AS INTENDED.
Please be patient. The difficulty is mostly with IPA characters, and some punctuation marks. We are struggling to solve it.
TO COMMENT ON ANY ARTICLE IN AWE:
Send an e-mail
to
academicwriting@hotmail.co.uk
[The 'talk' tabs at the top of pages - the previous system - have been attacked by spam, and weren't much used.
So that system IS CURRENTLY SUSPENDED.
[It may be worth trying the old system: some 'talk' pages are still open for comment.
To do so:
Click on the talk tab at the top of a page you want to comment on -
and write your thoughts, ideas, comments or criticisms in the blank page that opens.
It will help us if you give your name and e-address.]
Newcomers may wish to know more about AWE or get help with using AWE.
Guides
AWE is intended to help you become a better writer. This is a matter of taste and style. AWE does not set out to be judgemental: our aim is to advise you how to write in a style appropriate to your studies. We do not set out to teach you how to write formally in English; see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/apps/awe/.
- Good writing
- Correctness
- Referencing
- Advice leaflets (from Hull University's Study Advice Service)
Categories
Our 4,584 articles (and more) are arranged into broad categories, which may be a useful starting point. Some examples are:
- Academic English
- Word classes
- Pronunciation
- Figures of Speech
- Foreign words
- Grammar
- common mistakes in spelling
- Problems with the use of the first person
- (You may also like to see the article on the first person)
- For a comprehensive list, see Category list (on your left)
Courses
Structured courses on aspects of writing provide further depth to many of the topics covered in AWE. We do not set out to provide a structured course to teach you how to write formally in English; many other resources do this, such as the similarly named AWE app available (for: iPhone 3-6, iPod Touch, iPad and iPad mini, and Google Play for Android) from the Survey of English Usage at UCL, at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/apps/awe/.
- Grammar course
- Figures of Speech course
- Etymology of English course
- UCL's AWE course, at [[1]]
