Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts

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.

January 13, 2010

Fun with English

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig, huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

November 23, 2009

English Club ESL Learning Centre







English Club ESL Learning Centre is where you'll find lessons and resources to help you learn English. If you're an ESL or EFL student, you'll find the online English lessons here useful to learn or revise all aspects of English. You can also use the interactive pages like ESL Forums or ESL Games to have fun and learn English at the same time. If you have a question about English grammar check out ESL Help for answers. In the special interest pages you'll find resources for Business English, Young Learners and other areas of English. ESL or EFL teachers, too, can find material in these pages of use while teaching English.

October 1, 2008

Essay Writing

An essay is a piece of writing on a particular subject or topic, often written by students for assessment as part of a course of study. Types of writing vary greatly across different disciplinary fields and areas of study. However, in most types of essays students are expected to develop an argument and write with a clear structure and evidence that supports the argument.

1. Getting started and keeping going
Keeping a notebook or a journal
Writing a double-entry journal
Activity: Speaking and writing
Mapping your ideas
Developing realistic strategies for reading and writing
Going back and forth between your reading and writing
Finding your focus in a draft
Narrowing (or broadening) your topic


2. Giving your writing structure and purpose
Analysing the essay title and addressing the question
Key words
Key elements of university writing
Developing your argument
Situation – Problem – Solution – Evaluation


3. Making your writing coherent
What does 'coherence' mean?
Writing your introduction
Writing your conclusion


4. Making your writing fit together (Cohesion)
What does cohesion mean?
Connecting ideas to make a section
Connecting ideas to make a paragraph
Connecting ideas at word level
Using linking words
Activity: Three linking phrases


5. Writing in your own words and avoiding plagiarism
Writing in your own words
Citing sources
Paraphrasing and summarising
Referencing
Avoiding Plagiarism
Activity: Defining plagiarism
Understanding abbreviations
Understanding words in foreign languages
Using abbreviations
Activity: Abbreviations
Using abbreviations of names and titles
Using technical words and words in foreign languages


6. Reading your own and other’s work
Thinking about your audience
Editing your own and other's work
Activity: Checking for development of an argument

Writing Process


PREWRITING is the processes that can get you started on writing your essay such as keeping a notebook or a journal, or mapping your ideas, or analysing the essay title.

PLANNING is the process of selecting and ordering your ideas into a well-structured text. See developing your argument and connecting ideas to make a section.

DRAFTING is the process of formulating and refining your points as you develop your argument and re-write earlier versions of your essay.

EDITING is the process of cutting your work down to size and making your writing fit together.

FEEDBACK is the process of responding to comments made by your tutor or peers on your essay. You can also give and receive feedback by reading your own and others’ work.

REVISION is the process of improving your work through writing multiple drafts.

PROOFREADING is the process of checking the complete text for typos and ensuring the layout is satisfactory.