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Students complete a First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process prior to matriculation, in order to determine which of several environments will provide the best seminar experience for them. (This ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...

Academic writing will probably be very different to writing that you have produced before. There are very specific conventions, characteristics and rules that need to be adhered to. They convey ...

Academic writing is defined by conventions rather than rules and so its style varies. The point is not for you and your peers to produce identical pieces of writing , but to provide a shared framework ...

It is your job as the writer to help readers understand what they will gain from reading your work. What will they learn? What questions will they have that you can answer? Considering the lessons and ...