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An extensive searchable glossary of terms related to academic writing.
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Writing Glossary
A glossary of writing terms and phrases for academic writing.
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (03/12/2025) is LIBERATION: the act or process of being freed from something, political or otherwise. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (02/12/2025) is LOGIC: a rational system of thinking. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (01/12/2025) is MARGINAL: lower, less important; at the edges of rather than central. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (28/11/2025) is MONITOR: to watch carefully and record what happens. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (27/11/2025) is PERSPECTIVE: a particular way of looking or thinking about something. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (26/11/2025) is RATIO: the relationship between two numbers or amounts; a fraction. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (25/11/2025) is REJECTION: the act of being rejected; the refusal to accept something or someone. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (24/11/2025) is STABLE: unchanging, steady. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (21/11/2025) is UNDERTAKE: to start a task with the intention or promise of completing it. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (20/11/2025) is UNPREDICTABLE: difficult to anticipate how something might behave or change. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (19/11/2025) is ADJUST: to make a small change in order to improve something. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (18/11/2025) is ALTER: to make a change in the characteristics or behaviour of something. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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"..the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None"
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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (17/11/2025) is AMEND: to make a change to a text, often a legal one such as a law or constitution. More, with examples, at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (14/11/2025) is CONSULT: to ask for advice from an expert. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (13/11/2025) is DECLINE: 1. to become smaller;
2. to refuse an offer. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (12/11/2025) is ENTITY: something which exists as an independent unit. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (11/11/2025) is EXPAND: to grow, enlarge, become bigger. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (10/11/2025) is EXTERNAL: outside. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (07/11/2025) is IMPLICATE: 1. to show or suggest that someone is involved in a crime or misdeed.
2. to suggest a cause and effect connection. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY
Today's word (06/11/2025) is INTERNAL: located inside something. More, with examples from authentic texts, at www.writing.support/academic-wor...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM