8 Writing fundamentals

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A lot of our daily language use is spoken. While speaking is important at university, most of your assignments will require writing, so developing your writing skills for the academic setting is essential.

Developing your academic writing skills at university will help you express yourself in the workplace as well.

There are many different types of writing tasks at university. Even within a task type like essays there will be lots of variables that you will need to address. Pinpointing the assignment type as well as the direction words in the question will help you to succeed.

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