Teaching Writing

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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