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14 Effective Academic English Vocabulary Learning Strategies

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Having a good Academic English vocabulary is a significant part of studying at university. If you have a large Academic English vocabulary, you’ll write better essays, give better presentations and understand more of your lectures. Reading academic articles will be easier, too! Woohoo! To build a large Academic English vocabulary you’ll need to learn words from […]

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Five Fun Ways to Learn English Without Opening a Textbook

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What if you could learn English and have fun without studying textbooks? That would be great right? I mean, I technically learnt English (along with around 400 million other people) without consciously studying it. There is a time and a place for grammar, vocabulary and writing books, but you shouldn’t use them all of the

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Academic English and EAP: What Are They?

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You keep seeing Academic English and EAP, right? I didn’t see the word ‘academic’ until I became a university student. Fast-forward a few years later when I became a lecturer, and then suddenly everything was academic. I didn’t know much about Academic English when I was an undergraduate student. I never knew how to write academically when

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The Thesis Statement – The Most Important Sentence In An Essay: Part 1

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I see a number of reasons why essays receive poor grades as a lecturer, such as language accuracy, informal writing, weak evidence, structure, and so on. These are all important. But, no single sentence, in my opinion, is as important as the thesis statement, though. The thesis statement is a powerful, yet underutilised, tool in

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Do You Use ‘Thing’ Too Much? Try These

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Thing is one of the most overused words in Academic English. You’ve probably written something like:  “This essay will discuss several possible things” OR “One thing which affected the results one…”  Right? The reason why thing is used so much, is because it’s a beautifully versatile word which can be used in so many situations. It’s also really lazy.

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Six Effective Reading Strategies to Make you a Faster, More Efficient Reader

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University reading lists can be pretty long. In fact, many students often complain about how much they have to read before they’ve even started their Master’s degree courses. So, imagine how easy your life would be if you could read and understand three or more articles or chapters in an hour. You could work for

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