Lexitronics

In this MOODLE, we aim to provide a range of quality language services. A priority is our research and work with English vocabulary. To learn more about this, please visit our Lexitronics Blog.

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End of Year Scribd Update

Here’s an end of year update on the statistics for the Lexitronics Scribd site.
Write Like an Academic Thesis: 2,649 reads; 632 downloads.
Common English Lexical Framework: 1,750 reads; 475 downloads
Designing the Write Like an Academic Course: 620 reads; 27 downloads
Towards a Lexical Framework for CLIL: 607 reads; 90 downloads
Introducing Lexitronics: 286 reads; 20 downloads.
That’s approaching 6000 [...]
Lexitronics Courses and Donations to ESK

When we set up our courses at http://lexitronics.org, we fairly classically and perhaps hopefully included a ‘donate’ system. We also decided to send 50% of any donations to charity, though we were a little unsure as to how to do this and who to go with. We wanted ideally to feed back something into education, [...]
For Hugh Cory

Although Steve never met Hugh, he has heard a lot about him from Nilgun and John! Enough indeed to send the following:
Just saw a documentary on BBC WORLD about the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hugh’s untimely departure makes these two verses quite relevant, even though they were written over a thousand years ago.
Ah, make the [...]

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WLA Scribd Publications

Here’s a New Year Update on the WLA Scribd publications:
Nilgun’s PhD Thesis now has 2,766 reads and 656 downloads
The white paper on how the course was designed 627 reads and 28 downloads.
Happy New Year to you all and good luck with all your writing projects…
Academic Phrase Manager

This Manchester University site takes quite a similar approach to the WLA, by providing useful phrases divided into different functional areas / sub-moves. Well worth adding to your favourites as an another resource for improving academic writing. The link is: http://www.phrasebank.manchest er.ac.uk/introductions.htm

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