December 22, 2010

Writing

Typing Practice

  • Touch Typing. Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing.
Writing Exercises

Free-writing Practice

  • Ron's ESL Blogs. For ESL teachers to exchange ideas and for ESL students to practice writing.
  • Daily Writing Prompts. Reveal inner thoughts, and share personal observations with the help of the carefully crafted "idea joggers".
Writing Guides

  • ESL Bee. For high intermediate or advanced English learners who have never taken a formal
    English writing course.
  • Writers' Workshop. Grammar handbook, citation styles, ESL resources, and writing tips, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Writing Studio. Colorado State University's online learning environment, the Writing Studio.
  • Writing Guides. A concise, resource that will help you write solid college essays, research papers and book reports.
  • Best Essay Tips. A student-oriented source for dealing with difficulties in writing.
  • Essay Info. Basics of essay writing, writing tips, essay types, citation styles, and so on.
  • English the Easy Way. Improve your Writing Skills including help with writing a resume and cover letters.
Vocabulary Lists

Common Mistakes

  • Common Mistakes. A collection of some of the most frequently misspelled, commonly
    confused and easily misused words.
Essay Topics

  • Good Essay Topics. A collection of great topics for your college paper or essay, and
    10 tips for choosing a thrilling essay Topic.
  • Writing worksheets. Hundreds of writing topics provide
    teachers with meaningful writing tasks.
Format & Styles

  • APA Style. Official website of the American Psychological Association.
  • Technical Writing. An online textbook for technical writing. It's also a good online reference book.
  • Web Style Guide. Yale online design manual dealing with Web design principles and various Web design issues.
Research Tools

  • Web Concordancer. You can search an online corpus for a word and display all the sentences in which the word occurs.

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