Important information
Learning Advice Services have changed. New Language and Learning Services (L3) will be available to all UniSA students from Monday 13 February 2012. All L3 online resources designed to assist students with specific Language, academic Literacy and Learning skills are located on the L3 website.
Writing
A written assignment is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your knowledge and abilities. However, some expectations of uni assignments may be unfamiliar to you. Among these are ways of structuring different types of assignments, making an argument and making it clearly, showing that your ideas are well-informed and using the terminology of your discipline. Making improvements to your writing is likely to be an ongoing feature of your professional life. The web resource found at the link below introduces you to some key principles of academic writing as well as guides on writing different types of assignments. It includes information on the following topics:
- Principles of academic writing
- Essays
- Reports
- Reviews
- Summaries
- Annotated bibliographies
- Paragraphs and sentences
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Editing your work