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A collection of the English equivalents of terms that are commonly used in the institutional texts of the Catalan universities

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Undergraduate students

Guide for writing an end-of-degree thesis in English

Guide produced by the Catalan universities for undergraduates and master's-degree students writing a thesis in English

Academic writing at Monash University

A website provided by Monash University on the features of acadèmic writing

Oral presentations

A guide on preparing and delivering oral presentations by Duke University

Research in the social sciences

        Guide to writing a research project in the social sciences (University of Southern California)

PDI

Class-talk

A phrasebook that teaching staff can use to prepare their classes in English

English for conferences

A website that gives advice on preparing oral presentations at congresses

Duke graduate school writing resource

A resource that helps researchers improve their scientific writing in English

Writing studio. Tools and resources for writers

Website of the University of Colorado with a wide range of different resources

Guides for writing in the disciplines

Scidev.net

Advice on how to write a scientific article

General

CrosswordSolver

Do you feel like winding down and playing a language game?

General writing

A website that gives advice on the writing process

University nomenclature

        A collection of the English equivalents of terms that are commonly used in the institutional texts of the

        Catalan universities

Higher Education Lexicon

        More than 10,000 terms from academia

Rhetorical functions in academic speaking

         Examples of how to express yourself in various academic situations

Academic Listening

         A collection of audio files and their transcriptions to improve your academic listening skills

Practical guide to English usage. Comparing and contrasting English and Catalan

A guide published by the UOC that compares and contrasts English and Catalan

European Union interinstitutional style guide

Uniform stylistic rules and conventions which must be used by all the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union. Produced by representatives of the main linguistic services of the institutions, it is available in 24 European languages.

Thesaurus

A thesaurus with synonyms and antonyms

British national corpus

A corpus of British English

US College Student Writing Guide

          Guide for bibliographic citations in various formats (APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, AAA and CSE)