Rehan Ahmed

How to Write a Personal Statement for a UK university application

For most application to do a degree at a university in the UK, you’ll need to write what’s called a ‘Personal Statement’. In your application, your personal statement will accompany things like your CV and your covering letter. While these three will overlap in terms of some central information, they all serve slightly different purposes. …

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What Makes For Good Academic Writing?

A good piece of writing is one which answers the question or addresses the issue it sets out to efficiently, concisely and elegantly. Good writing is characterized by clear and explicit connections between thoughts, sentences and paragraphs, the absence of irrelevant material and repetition, unified and organized development, and a style and tone appropriate to …

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‘Which’ Vs. ‘That’

Grammatically, the distinction between “that” and “which” when used as reflexive pronouns depends on the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive subordinate clauses. A restrictive subordinate clause limits the scope of reference of the noun to which it refers, and is thus crucial to the sense of the sentence, while a non-restrictive clause simply provides additional, …

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The most common errors in academic writing

Having worked with academic writing from almost every discipline and level, our editors have extensive experience of what you should – and shouldn’t – do. The following presents their ideas on the most common, and detrimental, mistakes. Aversion to the Verb: I have noticed that many inexperienced researchers go through quite complicated convolutions in getting …

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