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Resources for Academic Writing

Academic writing of different subject areas has its own style and rules to follow.  This form of writing is different from expository composition, argumentation writing or commercial correspondence.  While it is quite hard to comprehend all research needs of every subject field, we have put together a handful of basic resources and relevant services to help you in planning your research and preparing your literature review etc.

Keep this Signpost handy as a guideline in writing an academic paper.

 

Books

AV materials or Electronic Tools

Online tutorial courses

Internet Resources
1. Getting started
2. Decide the "nature" of your writing or "how formal" you need to write...
A Formal thesis  
Final year project (FYP)  
Expository Writing    
Business Writing    
Technical Writing    
3. Find other relevant books and materials     
4. Check your grammar  
5. Some online reference works     
6. Attend the Library Workshop LS033     Please see the announcement on the Library Homepage.  
7. Use the right documentation style
  • Before you start, you may like to first decide on the citation style that you will use, e.g. MLA, APA etc.
  • A bibliographic manager, Refworks, could help you to manage your data effectively. An early understanding of bibliographic management can help you formulate a bibliography more systematically.
 Library Workshop LS032 discusses the use of Refworks.  Please see the announcement on the Library Homepage.

 

  
8. Stay plagiarism-free
  • PolyU students can use Turnitin to check their assignments.
   Familiarize yourselves with the issue:
 
Other instructions provided by the Library:

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Last updated: May 2009