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Typing Practice
- 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.
Writing Exercises
- Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
- Verb Tenses and Scrambled Sentences. Practice creating sentences in different verb tenses.
- English Writing Software - Intelligent writing software. Instant correction of grammar, spelling, and style errors.
Free-writing Practice
- Practice Free Writing with a Robot. An interesting way for ESL students to improve writing skills.
- Ron's ESL 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.
- Free Writing Guidelines. Principles and suggestions for free writing.
Writing Guides
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. A lot of information about how to write informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, and exploratory essays.
- ESL Bee. For high intermediate or advanced English learners who have never taken a formal English writing course.
- Basic Paragraph Structure. Detailed discussion of the topic sentence, body sentences, and the concluding sentence.
- 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. Grammar handbook, citation styles, ESL resources, and writing tips, from 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.
- Writing Studio. Colorado State University's online learning environment, the Writing Studio.
- 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.
- Re-writing. Excellent writing resources from bedfordstmartins.com.
- Writing – How to write English Texts. Punctuation, essays, and business letters.
- Five Paragraph Essay. Strong academic presentation with suggestions, outlines, and samples.
Vocabulary Lists
- 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.
Common Mistakes
- Common Mistakes. A collection of some of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused and easily misused words.
- Students' Essays. Learning from mistakes of other ESL/EFL writers.
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.
- 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.
Research Tools
- 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.