Structure, style, and flow
An academic text should have a clear, well-thought-out structure.
Flow
Linking words and phrases help a writer maintain flow and establish clear relationships between ideas. Here you find some sources on different ways to create flow in your text:
- Transition Words (Karolinska Institutet University Library)
- Academic Phrasebank (The University of Manchester)
Style
Learn more about the style used in academic writing at:
- The Writing Guide
- The Purdue OWL: grammar (Purdue University)
- Vocabulary building (Gillett)
- Verbs to introduce quotations and paraphrases (University of Portsmouth)
Structure
Academic texts are characterised by their structured format, and even short pieces of writing have regular, predictable patterns of organisation. The hour glass form represents the outline of the IMRaD-structure (Introduction, Method, Result, and Discussion) that most academic reports and theses are built on. Read more about the structure and organisation of academic text from Karolinska Institutet's University Library.