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Teaching Writing
Writing Exercises for Beginners
Touch Typing
A free program with keyboard tutorials to help you gain typing techniques quickly
Scrambled Sentences
200 exercises for beginners to practice writing English sentences
Beginners' Dictation
100 dictation exercises with 500 sentences
Verb Tenses and Scrambled Sentences
Practice creating sentences in different verb tenses
Writing Exercises
Online Dictation Exercises
100 dictation exercises to practice writing 1,000 sentences
Sentence Structure Writing Practice
Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses
Writing Guides
Academic Writing Guide
Online resources that provide students with tools to write expert academic papers
Writing Rescue Guide for College Students
Style guides, tips, and expert advice on essays, papers and college applications
Writers' Workshop
Grammar handbook, citation styles, ESL resources, and writing tips from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CSU Writing Guides
Colorado State University's online learning environment, an online textbook
Purdue Online Writing Lab
The earliest online writing lab with a section of English as a Second Language
How to Write
How to Write an Essay
12 steps to the advanced essay writing
Basic Paragraph Structure
How to Write a Paragraph Using the Four Essential Elements
Essay Info
How to develop strong thesis statement, attention-catching introduction, organized body paragraphs, and powerful conclusion
How to Write English Texts
A guide to punctuation marks, essays & presentations, and business letters
For Instructors
Essay Scoring Criteria
A scoring guide you can use to score students' essays into 6 grades
Correction Symbols
Common symbols instructors may use to indicate errors in essays
Holiday Cards Verses
Christmas Cards Verses
60 Christmas card verses for friends and family you love
Holiday Wording Ideas
A source for all your personalized holiday cards needs
Vocabulary Lists
The Academic Word List
570 most frequent words in the Academic Corpus.
Vocabulary for High Intermediate Learners
Basic English words for students who want to increase their vocabulary to the size of 4,000 - 7,000
Common Mistakes
Common Mistakes
A collection of some of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused, and easily misused words
Common Errors in English Usage
The site explains some of the most commonly misused and misunderstood aspects of English
Student Essays
Learning from mistakes of other ESL/EFL writers
Essay Topics
Personal Essay Ideas
A list of interesting personal essay topics
50 Argument Essay Topics
Good topics for your essay, speech, or debate
Writing Worksheets
Hundreds of writing topics provide teachers with meaningful writing tasks
Persuasive Essay Topics
This is a huge list of persuasive essay topics related to today's society
Public Speaking Speech Topics and Ideas
The site helps you with making a public speech from selecting a topic to writing and delivering
Speech topics lists
With free persuasive and informative ideas and class writing tips
Format & Styles
APA Style CENTRAL
The site has been developed for academic institutions by the American Psychological Association
Technical Writing
Resources for writing reports, scientific abstracts, and business letters
Research Tools
Web Frequency Indexer
Cut and paste an article here, and you will get a list of words used in the article
Corpus Concordance English
You can search an online corpus for a word and display all the sentences in which the word occurs
Corpus of American Soap Operas
The corpus contains 100 million words in ten American soap operas