APPENDICES: Academic Writing Basics

Technical Writing Essentials is designed to follow up on the skills learned in a first year Academic Writing course. An open textbook used in some first year writing courses is Why Write? A Guide for Students in Canada.  Chapter 5 of this textbook gives you an overview of the general “Rules for Academic Writing.”  The following sections provide a review of some of the basic conventions and expectations of academic writing that students should be familiar with and that are relevant to technical writing:

• Appendix A: Referring to Authors and Titles
• Appendix B: Writing a Summary
• Appendix C: Integrating Source Evidence into your Writing
• Appendix D: Transitional Words and Phrases for University Writing
• Appendix E: Sentence Structure
• Appendix F: Punctuation Matters
• Appendix G: Writing Comparisons
• Appendix H: Peer Review Essentials