This document provides guidance on various aspects of academic writing such as defining key terms, structuring paragraphs and organizing overall text, paraphrasing and summarizing information, referring to other sources, expressing cause and effect relationships, grammar rules for writing, writing dissertations, and describing graphic data. It covers fundamental academic writing skills and practices.

1. Academic writing practice
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• Definitions
• Paragraph structure
• Text organisation
• Paraphrasing and summarising
• Referring to other sources
• Expressing cause and effect
• Grammar in writing
• Writing dissertations
• Describing graphic data
• Writing dissertations
• Describing graphic data