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The study reported here focuses on the written academic performance in English of non-native students in a UK university. It is prompted by the experience of a teacher who both lectures in an academic subject within the social sciences to groups of predominantly overseas postgraduate students and also provides language training in English for Academic Purposes for similar students. He therefore has an interest in evaluating their written language both from the point of view of linguistic proficiency and as evidence of academic ability.