This handout is available for download in PDF format. Active verbs are important components of any academic writing! Just as in other forms of writing, they work as engines, driving the action of your ...

'Paper' has different meanings. In this video we're looking at 'paper' to mean pieces of academic writing. There are some words that we often use together with 'paper'. These are called collocations.

Academic writing tends to adopt formal language derived from Latinate, rather than Anglo-Saxon roots. This distinction is particularly evident in the use of verbs in academic language. In general, ...

In this video we're looking at 'paper' to mean pieces of academic writing. There are some words that we often use together with 'paper'. These are called collocations. Learn some of the verbs that ...

Instead of an infinitive phrase, try using finite verbs or noun phrases. Circumlocutions are commonly used roundabout expressions that take several words to say what could be said more succinctly. We ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical ... showing a four-fold decrease. (passive without pronouns) Active verbs: Investigating (instead of investigated) stem cell treatment ...