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It is always a good idea for writers, no matter their level, to take advantage of the resources available to them. Using the websites below will help you strengthen your writing, correct your formatting, and understand the English language more clearly.
The most comprehensive online writing center. This site offers an unusually wide selection of handouts, exercises, and self-tutorials on topics including punctuation basics, resume writing, writing research papers, and documentation across academic disciplines.
Excellent and extensive resource with handouts supporting all steps in the writing process, as well as information about writing for a wide variety of different disciplines.
The University of Manitoba's website features a wide selection of handouts to assist with your writing. You can find many helpful handouts, on topics like how to title your essay, how to paraphrase from a source, etc.
Purdue's online guide offers useful information and advice as well as links to MLA and APA style guides.
A helpful collection of sites and tips on citation, avoiding plagiarism, and more.
A page of tips for students and a checklist for writing research papers in a large number of academic disciplines.
This website allows you to use several different dictionaries at the same time.
You’ll find here guidelines and examples of how to present tables and figures in APA style.
This page and related links offer an overview of the challenges of avoiding what is commonly called plagiarism or misuse of sources.
Provides handouts on how to write different kinds of essays.
A page that assists in the developmental stages of writing. It offers descriptions of various methods in creating effective structures for essays.
This site has detailed information on mechanics and other structural issues. It also provides in-depth looks at editing, analysis and writing across disciplines.
The University of Wisconsin Madison’s website offers a step-by-step guide on how to identify your paper’s topic and build your thesis from your topic.
This is another guide to writing a thesis from the Harvard Writing Center. Features extensive written instructions on everything to be considered before writing a thesis.
A site offering step-by-step site advice on creating a basic essay, from topic selection to finishing touches.
This site provides a no-frills, yet extensive list of grammatical definitions and terms.
This site offers a unique and refreshing look at grammatical concerns, with helpful illustrations and clear and concise explanations.
This website features a search function. For each grammatical topic (e.g. comma splice) there is a short write-up on suggested ways to fix an error, as well as an explanation on what makes the issue ungrammatical.
This website offers information on rules of grammar, as well as an extensive collection of lessons, exercises, and tools.
See Towson University’s Online Writing Support for a collection of resources.
This link provides in-depth explanations and quizzes for a variety of grammar topics.
See Edufind for a collection of grammar/usage resources, including verbs, relative clauses, determiners (e.g., ‘the’) and punctuation.
This site contains a wealth of multimedia materials tailored to a global audience of English learners. Lessons and resources cover learning from the academic to the every day.
This is a link to the Purdue OWL and its ESL resources, which are thorough, in-depth and user-friendly.
This website is full of resources for both English learners and educators. Includes lessons, activities, and audio files for help with pronunciation.
This is a link to a series of short chapters that guide students on the difficult task of learning to use the articles ‘a/an, the, 0’ in English.
This link provides in-depth explanations and quizzes for a variety of grammar topics.
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