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Successful Academic Writing

This guide provides advice to students for improving their academic writing skills.

Focused Google search techniques for locating advice on writing from professors and librarians.

 

Focused Google search ---  site:edu  intitle:writing  intitle:guide  "international students"  ---  finds university websites with the words "writing" and "guide" in the title and "international students" mentioned somewhere on the page.


How this search works:   

site:edu    limits your search to U.S. university websites

intitle:writing    intitle:guide    looks for websites with the words "writing and "guide" in the title

"international students"       putting two or more words in "quotes" ensures Google will look for that phrase

 

 

 

The Google search  ---   "LibGuides" "international students" "writing"   ---  looks for websites created by librarians (LibGuides) that contain the phrase "international students" and the word "writing"

 

How this search works:   

"LibGuides"   limits results to research guides created by librarians

"writing"     putting a word in "quotes" ensures Google will look for that word

"international students"       putting two or more words in "quotes" ensures Google will look for that phrase

                      

 

 

The Google search ---  site:edu  "paraphrasing"  "plagiarism"  --- looks for university websites containing the words plagiarism and paraphrasing


How this search works:   

site:edu    limits your search to U.S. university websites

"plagiarism"  "paraphrasing"     putting a word in "quotes" ensures Google will look for that word