Academic English (EAP)
We don't just teach essays, we teach how universities think.
Overview
Academic English is not just harder everyday English. It is a different register with its own conventions: hedging, referencing, cautious generalisation, extended argumentation, and a careful distance from casual speech. Many international students arrive fluent conversationally but find their first essay returned covered in corrections.
We work directly with the assignments, readings, and assessment criteria of your actual course. Whether you are studying Engineering, Business, Law, Health Sciences, or the Humanities, we teach the academic conventions of your discipline and build the writing, speaking, and reading skills that determine your grades.
Your Programme Roadmap
Every course is delivered as a structured programme with defined phases, milestones, and measurable outcomes, not a series of unrelated lessons. Here is how a typical programme unfolds.
Course & Marking Diagnostic
Review your course syllabus, marking rubrics, and any past assignments with feedback. Identify discipline-specific conventions. Establish the two or three highest-leverage skill gaps.
Academic Register & Argumentation
Hedging language and cautious claims. Nominalisation and formal register. Paragraph-level argument structure. Thesis building and topic sentences.
Sources, Paraphrasing & Referencing
Critical reading of academic sources. Paraphrasing without accidental plagiarism. Synthesising multiple sources. APA / Harvard / Chicago referencing conventions.
Tutorial & Presentation Skills
Entering tutorial discussions confidently. Polite academic disagreement. Presentations with signposting. Handling viva-style questions.
Consolidation & Self-Editing
Editing your own writing for register, hedging, and structure. Time management across multiple assignments. Long-term independent study strategies.
Topics We Cover
What You'll Learn
How academic English differs from conversational English at the sentence level
How to build a sustained argument across a 2,000-word essay
How to integrate sources through paraphrase, summary, and direct quotation
How to enter tutorial discussions confidently, even as a non-native speaker
How to self-edit your writing for academic register before submission
What a Session Looks Like
Assignment Review
Walk through upcoming assessments, marking criteria, and course readings for the week
Writing Feedback
Detailed, paragraph-level feedback on a draft or past essay with rewrite practice
Academic Skills Focus
Targeted work on referencing, paraphrasing, tutorial strategies, or source integration
Language Refinement
Discipline-specific vocabulary, academic collocations, and hedging language
