This clear and accessible guide to decoding academic feedback will help you interpret what your lecturer or research supervisor is really trying to tell you about your writingâand show you how to fix it. It will help you master a range of techniques and strategies to take your writing to the next level and along the way youâll learn why academic text looks the way it does, and how to p
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: You may have academic writing troubles, but you can fix them!
2. ‘Your writing doesn’t sound very academic’: How to convince your reader you belong
3. 'Where’s your evidence for this?': Using what you know to make a case
4. ‘Your writing doesn’t flow’: Making your text coherent and fluent
5. ‘Waffle’: Improving readability by managing your extra words
6. ‘Uncritical!’: Taking a stand in your writing
7. ‘Where’s your discussion section?’: Structuring your work as a whole
8. The end of this book, but not the end of your dissertation
