What's new?

Better Writing Workshops

Better Writing Workshops. They’re new. The 6 Steps is a simple system. It’s FREE. The aim of these workshops is to support you if you want to improve your essay writing skills. Download the flyer to find out more.

Better English’ workshops

24 September 2008

We are now offering FREE ongoing workshops to improve your English language skills – most particularly writing. Download the flyer to find out more.

New tutorial schedules

2 June 2008

New tutorial schedules will be posted on this site prior to the commencement of semester 2, 2008 (which commences on Monday 21 July).

Develop your academic vocabulary

7 May 2008

There are now links to websites that provide practice exercises for the Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000). This list is generally considered to be the best list of academic vocabulary currently available anywhere in the world.

View 'Developing your academic vocabulary' in Resources >>

First read about the AWL itself, and then try the exercises so that you can learn how to use the new vocabulary items.