Writing 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
- How to Write Perfect College Admission Essay A resource created by Best Value Schools to help students write admission essays.
- Academic Writing Guide Online resources that provide students with tools to write expert academic papers
- 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 An excellent article on how to write from wikihow.com
- Essay Tips 7 tips on writing an effective essay
- How to Write English Texts A guide to punctuation marks, essays & presentations, and business letters
- Guide to Writing Dissertation A complete guide to how to write a dissertation
For Instructors
- Evaluation Criteria for Formal Essays The four categories that are interdependent
- 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 Errors in English Usage The site explains some of the most commonly misused and misunderstood aspects of English
Essay Topics
- 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
Format & Styles
- APA Style CENTRAL The site has been developed for academic institutions by the American Psychological Association
- Technical writing How to Become a Technical Writer: A Beginner s Guide
Research Tools
- Online Plagiarism Checker It is fast, easy to use, and does not require registration
- Preventing Plagiarism A guide for students and educators
- Web Frequency Indexer Cut and paste an article here, and you will get a list of words used in the article and their frequency
- 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