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How to Write Academic English

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Understanding the Question

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An essential step in academic writing is correctly interpreting the assignment question. If you don't understand the question you might write irrelevant content and so get lower marks. To avoid that, follow this link to our page that gives tips and examples of how to interpret a question in the Guide: 
The Basic Steps in Doing an Assignment.