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#AcademicTwitter How do you manage academic writing, especially when English is not ur native language? Feel free to share your methods. You may help others in ways you cannot imagine.

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Following @PartoutProf's post on bias against non-natives and @Misspoetry5's struggles regarding academic writing, I share my methods of managing academic writing. Hope some find them helpful.

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I don't feel ashamed of using help, of course not paid ones, when I don't have any funding. But the following methods and tools helped me a lot.

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1⃣ A supervisor or mentor who knows very well about academic writing and revises your writing obsessively. It can be very disappointing, but if you manage your feelings, you can learn a lot in the long term. This one is how my writing improved.

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2⃣ I write without trying to make the words and sentences perfect the first time. I repeatedly use the exact words if nothing else comes to my mind; otherwise, I cannot finish the first draft.

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3⃣ When revising my writing, I look up the proper synonyms in different dictionaries and tools. There are lots of good dictionaries, but my favorites are
🟢 ldoceonline.com
🟢 lexico.com
🟢 powerthesaurus.org

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4⃣ Collocations are very important. I always check for them. I always use
🟢 freecollocation.com
🟢 skell.sketchengine.eu
There are also
🟢udwig.guru
🟢collocaid.uk

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🟢scholar.google.com: Insert * to leave a blank in a phrase or clause, for example “this * has led to”
🟢english-corpora.org/coca
🟢books.google.com/ngrams

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5⃣ Don't forget the grammar checkers. Remember these tools do lots of other things
🟢grammarly.com
🟢prowritingaid.com
🟢quillbot.com (this is the best for paraphrasing as far as I know)

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6⃣ Don't forget reference management tools
zotero.org
mendeley.com

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7⃣ Of course, phrase banks
phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk

8⃣ Attend writing workshops. There are online and free ones. You may find some here
eventbrite.ca

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9⃣ Teaching SAT writing and language section was a savior! I learned a lot about academic writing. You may find this book helpful!

amazon.com/College-Pandas…

🔟 Copy-cat! Read articles in your field and try to use their words and styles. Even you can prepare a list of helpful words and phrases for the future.
But don't plagiarize.

Finally, universities generally have help centers for writing. Check if your university provides one!