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The University Writing Center (UWrite): Videos, Tutorials and Podcasts

Videos, Tutorials and Podcasts

This page provides a wide range of videos on a variety of academic writing related topics. The first box (Video Collections) links to university websites which contain multiple videos.  The remainder of the page is then organised alphabetically by topic:

  • Academic Reading
  • Academic Vocabulary
  • Academic Writing Style
  • Analysing Essay Titles/ Understanding Assignments
  • Annotated Bibliographies
  • Articles (a/ an/ the)
  • Being Critical
  • Brainstorming
  • Capitalisation
  • Citation: How and Why?
  • Common Assignment Types
  • Commas
  • Comparing and Contrasting
  • Complex Sentence Structures
  • Conciseness
  • Conditionals
  • Conjunctions and Linkers
  • Countability
  • Critical Thinking
  • Drawing Relationships between Ideas
  • Editing and Proofreading
  • Effective Study Habits
  • Essay Writing
  • Flow
  • Getting Your Research Published
  • Google Scholar
  • Hedging and Boosting
  • Integrating Research Sources
  • Literature Reviews
  • Outlines
  • Paragraphing
  • Parallel Constructions
  • Paraphrasing
  • Parts of Speech
  • Passive Voice
  • PhD Proposal
  • Plagiarism
  • Prepositions 
  • Presentations
  • Problem Statements
  • Pronouns
  • Punctuation and Spelling
  • Quoting and Referencing
  • Reading Academic Texts
  • Reflective Writing
  • Report Writing
  • Researching for Assignments
  • Research Design
  • Research Methodology
  • Research Paradigms
  • Research Proposals
  • Research Questions
  • Reverse Outlining
  • Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
  • Searching and Reading Strategies
  • Searching for Information
  • Self-plagiarism
  • Semi colons and colons
  • Sentence Clarity
  • Sentence Structure
  • Sentence Variation
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Summary Writing
  • Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
  • Theoretical Framework, Methodology, and Research Questions
  • Thesis Statements
  • Thesis (Dissertation) Writing
  • Verb Tenses in Academic Writing
  • Writing Process

Academic Reading

Academic Vocabulary

Academic Writing Style

Analysing Essay Titles/ Understanding Assignments

Annotated Bibliographies

Articles

Being Critical

Brainstorming

Capitalisation

Citation: How and Why?

Common Assignment Types

Commas

Comparing and Contrasting

Complex Sentence Structures

Conciseness

Conditionals

Conjunctions and Linkers

Countability

Critical Thinking

Drawing Relationships Between Ideas

Editing and Proofreading

Effective Study Habits

Essay Writing

Flow

Getting Your Research Published

Google Scholar

Hedging and Boosting

Integrating Research Sources

Literature Reviews

Outlines

Paragraphing

Parallel Constructions

Paraphrasing

Parts of Speech

Passive Voice

PhD Proposal

Plagiarism

Prepositions

Presentations

Problem Statements

Pronouns

Punctuation and Spelling

Quoting and Referencing

Reading Academic Texts

Reflective Writing

Report Writing

Research Design (Playlist)

Researching for Assignments

Research Methodology

Research Paradigms

Research Proposals

Research Questions

Reverse Outlining

Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments

Searching and Reading Strategies

Searching for Information

Self-plagiarism

Semi colons (and Colons)

Sentence Clarity

Sentence Structure

Sentence Variation

Subject-Verb Agreement

Summary Writing

Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks

Theoretical Framework, Methodology, and Research Questions

Thesis Statements

Thesis (Dissertation) Writing

Verb tenses in Academic Writing

(The) Writing Process