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ANNOUNCER:
It’s time for Academic Listening - a series for students at English-speaking universities. Join
Susan Fearn and members of the World Service class of 2001 as they continue to look at
academic writing.
Susan: No-one ever said that being a student would be easy! But we start today with
a practical tip from one of our World Service students. If two brains are better
than one – why not team up with other students when you study… especially
when you’re working on a written assignment.
CLIP: Student Emma
When it comes to students helping each other - say for example you are given an assignment -
we always get three topics, and we choose one, and we have what we call e-groups and we email
each other and everyone says - I've taken the first question: anyone who's interested to
have a discussion about that? So you come together as a group for the same question, do your
research and discuss it, and everyone shares their ideas and then go and write your assignment
- give it to each other to read - especially to check the grammar. We always make use of
students with English as a first language. This is very helpful.
Susan: You may find that you’ve got plenty of ideas for your essay, but that it’s hard to
express them in accurate and appropriate English. Or you may have problems
organising your written work. Well, last time we suggested that it’s a good idea
to approach writing as a series of stages in which you prepare and revise draft
versions of your work. Today, we’ll think about some of the stylistic
conventions that you have to follow as a writer of academic English, and we’ll
think a little more about the research stage of the writing process.
Brainstorming is something you could do with other students. But wouldn’t
that be cheating? Not according to Tony Lynch. He’s a senior lecturer at the
Institute for Applied Language Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
CLIP: Tony Lynch
On this question of students collaborating on writing - I don't have a problem with that
personally. I'm quite happy if my students work together - my experience is, when students
collaborate on an essay assignment, even if they are all doing the same essay, they don't end up
with the same text. I think some lecturers are afraid that they'll end up with a single text written
by 30 people who hand in 30 copies of the same thing - that's not my experience. And in fact
when I was a student we were encouraged to work together in what were called 'syndicates' -
even preparing exam answers, so we would discuss the questions in advance and work out
what we thought a good answer would be.
Susan: As we’ve already noted in this series, the quality of your assignments as a
university student will depend partly on the quality of your research. We’ve
spoken about how to make best use of the university library and how to gather
relevant information quickly and efficiently. [We also suggested that your
lecturer might be able to give you a list of books and articles to refer to. But if
you get no such help, try to find a recent publication with a bibliography or list
of references. Then, use this as a starting point to direct you to other material.
Simon Williams teaches English in the Language Centre at University College
London.
CLIP: Simon Williams
Be systematic in the use of the reference list at the back of a book. You can use it to find other
books that might be helpful, and for that reason, start with a contemporary book. Using the
reference section of a book, you're going to build on the work someone else has already done.
Sharing in academic community, you’ll make your own contribution in the work you do.

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