The Academic Phrasebank: an academic writing resource for students and researchers

The Academic Phrasebank is an invaluable academic writing resource whatever stage of your career you are at. Equally useful for writers of English as a second language and native speakers, for researchers who want to improve their academic writing & students who need assistance writing up their thesis or dissertation writing.

Written by the Director of University-wide Language Programmes at The University of Manchester, The Academic Phrasebank contains tips, advice and examples in all of these topics:

Introducing work
Referring to literature
Describing methods
Reporting results
Discussing findings
Writing conclusions
Being critical
Being cautious
Classifying and listing
Compare and contrast
Defining terms
Describing trends
Describing quantities
Explaining causality
Giving examples as support
Signalling transition
Writing about the past
Writing abstracts
Academic style
Style in presentations
Commonly confused words
British and US spelling
Punctuation
Using articles
Sentence structure
Paragraph structure
Helpful tips for writers