6 useful pieces of advice with relevant links from the British Council.

A pdf with some general (but good) advice on writing a dissertation.

A book on critical thinking with a particularly useful and brief appendix on CT mistakes and Strategies. Requires library login.

A 7-page downloadable pdf guide to reflective writing.

A brief guide to cohesion and coherence and cohesion with a vocabulary list, pdf version for download, and a lesson available for teachers.

A comprehensive guide to academic presentations with videos and pdf downloads. There is a charge to download pdfs.

A complete gudie to academic presentations including posters and group presentations, and with tips about confidence and even a software guide.

Videos and free pdf downloads to learn to pronounce the academic word list.

A 3-part guide to academic reflection from Edinburgh University

Guides and links for many different academic skills from Leeds University Library

Online exercises on academic style with feedback.

A list of links of various resources on the Academic Word List.

"""Most international students need to write essays and reports for exams and coursework, but writing good academic English is one of the most demanding tasks students face. This new, fourth edition of has been completely revised to help students reach this goal.

A comprehensive guide to academic writing - ebook (requires library login)

A 20-question exercise to help you practise which language can be used in certain cause and effect sentences.

A short 2-page pdf guide to the differences between synthesis and analysis, and how to do each.

Guide to writing art criticism including 4 levels or formal analysis and 18 principles of interpretation.

A thorough guide to reading scientific papers including descriptions of statistics and questions to ask when reading a journal article.

Links to guides to writing in 10 different discipline areas: architecture, arts, business, education, engineering, IT, law, medicine, pharmaceuticals and science.

Disorganised Commissioner Coste comes across Astrid Nielsen who is autistic and a gifted criminologist, in the police archives. Can they form a useful relationship? In French with English subtitles.

The crime fighting duo are on the case with mysterious and at times supernatural adventures. Can Astrid and Raphaelle puzzle out their path to the solutions? In French with English subtitles.

Exercises which test that you know every word in the Academic Word List.

A useful tool - paste in a text and words from the Academic Word List are highlighted.

Videos on how to pronounce the basic sounds of British English as well as other features such as assimilation and linking

A useful collection of the best (undergraduate) dissertations from the Department of History at Bristol University organised by year.

(Currently) four downloadable breif guides to writing in history, philosophy, English and psychology.

The website of a presentation services company which provides lots of useful free resources e.g. training videos, software and ppt templates.

Links to 9 units about writing emails - each unit has a guide to an aspect of writing emails with online exercises and a pdf downloadable version.

A fun app (also website) to help you learn a new language through structured courses. The free version is limited but still useful.

A very useful guide to how to solve the problem of making sources clear without repeating the same citation in a paragraph with example paragraphs