The Grinch's Rulebook
Eight resources he's willing to endorse — each one listed under its real name, with the description it earned, so you know exactly what you're opening before you open it.
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Academic Language Lab
Fifteen habits your essay picked up from group chat, and fifteen ways to make it stop.
Fifteen habits your essay picked up from group chat, and fifteen ways to make it stop. He's read every draft you were hoping he wouldn't.
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The Sentence Architecture Lab
Every long academic sentence is a chain of separate thoughts. Build one, then browse 42 techniques across seven families.
Every long academic sentence is a chain of separate thoughts — the only real decision is which connector joins each pair. Build a chain, then compare the same six thoughts assembled three different ways.
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Academic Transitional Devices
Twelve functional families of transitions, with elevated scholarly examples and precise usage notes.
Twelve functional families of transitional devices — addition, contrast, cause, result, exemplification, emphasis and more — each with pronunciation, an elevated example sentence, and a note on exactly when to reach for it.
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Academic Relational Vocabulary Infograph
Nine conceptual families of relational vocabulary, with pronunciation and elevated scholarly examples.
Nine conceptual families — foundation, origin, consequence, dependence, causal influence and more — mapping the precise vocabulary for how one idea relates to another, each with pronunciation and a worked example.
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Coherence of Ideas in Academic Writing
The complete guide to logical flow — deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning, paragraph unity and thematic progression.
The complete guide to logical flow in academic writing: deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning, paragraph unity, thematic progression, and the organisational patterns that make an argument hold together instead of just sitting next to itself.
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Academic Signposting Interactive Resource
The complete guide to guiding your reader — sequencing, contrasting, emphasising, summarising and referring forward and back.
The complete guide to guiding your reader through an argument: opening, sequencing, adding, contrasting, cause and result, exemplifying, emphasising, and referring forward and back — every major signpost that keeps an essay easy to follow.
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The Art of Underpinning in Academic Writing
How to ground every claim in evidence, theory and critical conversation — the complete practical guide.
How to ground every claim in evidence, theory and critical conversation — the complete practical guide for essays, research papers and theses, covering textual evidence, engaging critics, using theory, and integrating sources without losing your own voice.
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Formal Vocabulary in Academic Writing
300 essential informal-to-formal academic word swaps, organised by category.
300 essential informal-to-formal word swaps, organised by category — thinking and arguing, showing and proving, doing and making, saying and writing, change and result, adjectives, nouns, phrasal verbs, quantity, and linking words.
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