Science, Technology and Engineering

Web resources

These websites provide useful advice on a range of topics, including academic writing style, essays, laboratory reports, literature reviews, postgraduate theses, referencing, grammar and exam preparation.

LAS guides

• “Affect” or “effect”
• Apostrophes (plus the problem of its and it's)
• Colons (:)
• Commas - A Guide to using
• Exam Revision Strategies
• “Few” or “less”
• Irregular plural nouns used in scientific writing
• One word or two?
• Plagiarism
• Pronouns in scientific writing
• Reducing wordiness
• Scholarly abbreviations
• Semi colons (;)
• Setting up a list
• “That” or “which”
• Useful verbs