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

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 3-part guide to academic reflection from Edinburgh University

Online exercises on academic style with feedback.

"""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.

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

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.

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

Useful language for cause and effect with a short online exercise to check grammar and meaning.

An organised list of useful language for cause and effect with two online exercises to practise.

A pdf of advice for choosing a dissertation topic. This is also relevant for students choosing the topic of an extended essay.

The most popular guide to writing reference list, bibliographies and citing. Requires library login.

Links to a series of articles in the journal 'Clinical Chemistry' which amount to a book on scientific writing. Requires UCL login.

A collection of useful language for various functions of English (see tags).

"This [webpage] will help you first to determine whether a particular assignment is asking for comparison/contrast and then to generate a list of similarities and differences, decide which similarities and differences to focus on, and organize your paper so that it will be clear and effective. It will also explain how you can (and why you should) develop a thesis that goes beyond “Thing A and Thing B are similar in many ways but different in others.”"

Explanation of the the different ways that ideas are connected in a text with some useful language.

A guide to critical essay writing with videos and links to other sources.

A writing skills blog with tips and advice with a helpful 'categories' menu

This book is designed to enhance the capacity of graduate and undergraduate students, as well as early career scholars, to write for academic purposes. Fang describes key genres of academic writing, common rhetorical moves associated with each genre, essential skills needed to write the genres, and linguistic resources and strategies that are functional and effective for performing these moves and skills.

A brief introduction to academic English.

A short video with lots of very good advice about developing an argument.

A 3-page pdf with very useful advice about developing and writing an argument.

A guide to developing an argument with a nice 7-minute video on structuring an essay and a helpful section on how to overcome a list of problems.

A guide to different types of argument.