Useful links for Writing

 

 

Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing with questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses.

Verb Tenses and Scrambled Sentences. Practice creating sentences in different verb tenses.

ESL Writing blogs. For ESL teachers to exchange ideas and for ESL students to practice writing.

ESL Online Talk Community. where you can find a friend from another country to communicate with in English.

Touch Typing. Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing.

Peter's Online Typing Course. A set of free online typing lessons and exercises.

Five Paragraph Essay. Strong academic presentation with suggestions, outlines, and samples.

Essay Punch. Students see their work develop on a note pad that keeps track of each step.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. A lot of information about how to write informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, and exploratory essays.

TOEFL-Prep Writing Practice Site. Help you begin to learn how to write formal academic essays in English.

Essay Info. Basics of essay writing, writing tips, essay types, citation styles, and so on.

Good Essay Topics. A collection of great topics for your college paper or essay, and 10 tips for choosing a thrilling essay Topic.

The Purdue University Writing Lab Handouts. One of the earliest online writing lab. The Handouts section provides excellent guide to academic writing. There is also a section of English as a Second Language.

Writers' Workshop. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Online Guide to Writing and Research. University of Maryland University College (UMUC) prvides this site, like an online writing textbook.

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

Re-writing. Excellent writing resources from bedfordstmartins.com.

Writing – How to write English Texts. Punctuation, essays, and business letters.

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.

Writing Studio. A free, password-protected writing/learning environment that offers WYSIWYG writing tools.

APA Style. Official website of the American Psychological Association.

A Guide for Writing Research Papers. Based on styles recommended by the American Psychological Association in question-and-answer format.

Writing for the Web. Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write.

Web Frequency Indexer. Cut and paste an article here, and you will get a list of words used in the article.

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

Online Writing Collaboration Project. The meeting place on cyberspace for English teachers and learners.

The Academic Word List. 570 most frequent words in the Academic Corpus.

Vocabulary for High Intermediate Learners. Lists of the words for students who want to increase their vocabulary to the size of 4,000 - 7,000.

Writing worksheets. Hundreds of writing topics provide teachers with meaningful writing tasks.