The Hixon Writing Center (HWC) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has produced a set of six videos titled "An Introduction to College Writing" that is useful to anyone who wants to learn more about academic writing.
The four video tutorials include: Making an Argument, Organizing Your Writing, Working with Sources, and Writing with Clarity.
As part of Caltech's series on college writing, HWC created the following excellent introduction to academic writing:
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An online tutorial that introduces scientific journal literature to university students, created by Dalhousie University, Canada.
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YouTube description: "Have you ever written a paper for class and then worried that you had not synthesized your sources or cited your references correctly? This presentation will offer tips on writing with integrity, including best practices in organizing your sources, taking notes from sources, integrating source material into your text, and understanding how documentation functions within academic writing to further scholarly conversation."