Tenses in academic writing

Description

This workshop will help you to identify the three most common verb tenses in written academic English and give you the opportunity to practise using the tenses.

This workshop is a part of the Communication Skills for International Students programme. It is designed for international students and students who use English as an additional language.

This workshop will take place online in Blackboard Collaborate – guidance on using Collaborate is available. The workshop will have interactive elements and we recommend that if possible you use a laptop or PC with Chrome or Firefox as your browser. You may wish to use an additional mobile device or another tab in your browser for the interactive elements.

Workshop objectives:

To feel more confident about:

• identifying the three main tenses used in academic writing
• identifying when these tenses are used
• using these tenses.