Writing Resources

Teaching English - British Council & BBC

• all levels

• excellent articles and resources

ESL - About writing in English

• beginners
• intermediate
• advanced

• short writing assignments
• business writing
• writing lesson plans

Academic Phrasebank

Language Centre Manchester University

• intermediate

• upper intermediate

• advanced

• excellent resource
• Academic Phrasebank is a very useful guide to choosing appropriate phrases for academic writing and giving guidance on how to use them

Study Skills Online

from the University of Canberra

• upper intermediate

• advanced

• Analytical thinking

• Answering the question

• Acknowledging sources

• Annotated bibliography

• Conclusions

• Critical Thinking

• Essays & reports

• Grammar points

• Literature review

• Note-taking in lectures

• Note-taking from texts

• Plagiarism  & more....

Study Skills from Uni Learning

University of Wollongong

• intermediate

• advanced

• Effective writing

• Academic writing

• Writing sentences

• Essay writing

• Report Writing

• Reading

• Note-taking

• Critical thinking

Writing argumentative essays

by Bill Daly

• intermediate

• advanced

prepared by Bill Daly while working at the Victoria University of Technology, Australia

• a course that aims to teach students how to write a short argumentative essay (approx 1,000 words)

• extremely useful sections which include help in all areas: content, organisation, language

Advice on Academic Writing from the University of Toronto

• advanced

• General advice on academic essays

• Reading & using sources

• Specific Types of Writing

• Style and Editing

• Grammar & Punctuation

Using the Computer to improve your writing - from the University of Toronto

• intermediate

• advanced

• practical tips on how to use your computer as a tool to help text editing

Writing Guides

from the University of Kansas

• intermediate

• advanced

for students - The KU Writing Guide

• academic essays

• how to avoid plagiarism

• help with grammar & much more

for instructors

• writing in your classes

• supporting student writers

resources on the web

• citing online sources

• evaluating web sites

• researching on the web

How to write a PhD Thesis – Online Course from University of Queensland

• advanced

• FAQ page

• stages in the PhD writing process

• search facility

• intermediate
• advanced

• writing help 
• research
• documenting sources
• grammar, spelling, punctuation etc

Writing Summaries

Worcester State College

• intermediate

• advanced

• guide to summary writing

• web resources

Paraphrase & Summary - University of Toronto

• advanced

• when to paraphrase & when to summarise

• how to paraphrase

• how to summarise

Using Quotations - University of Toronto

• advanced

• how much to quote

• how to introduce a short quote etc.

Research and Documentation -Bedford, St Martin's

• advanced

excellent resource - the documentation guidelines include both intext citation examples as well as how to cite sources in the References

• Humanities: finding sources, documenting sources

• Social Sciences: finding sources, documenting sources

• History: finding sources, documenting sources

• Sciences: finding sources, documenting sources

Referencing guidelines

Proofreading a bibliography

CELTE, University of Warwick

• upper intermediate

• advanced

• site run by Warwick University

• clear guidelines

• practice exercises with answers

• WWW referencing conventions

References from Electronic Sources

• upper intermediate

• advanced

• hosted by the American Psychological Association

• information on all forms of electronic referencing

Complete Guide to the Harvard system – University of Bournemouth

• upper intermediate

• advanced

• detailed guide to citation and referencing using the Harvard system

MHRA Style Guide

• advanced

• free download of the Modern Humanities Research Association Style Guide

• elementary
• intermediate
• advanced

• adult learners can register free to be paired with native speakers of the language they are learning to communicate by email, fax or telephone

• intermediate
• advanced

• ideas, organising, revising, editing
• documenting sources
• informal essays
• thesis support essays
• argumentative essays
• exploratory essays
• chatroom too

• advanced

• business correspondence & resumes
• technical reports - structure & process
• business plans
• user guides
• feasibility reports
• oral presentations

• advanced

• designed for native speakers of English studying English literature
• principles of composition
• rules of usage
• American English

• elementary
• intermediate
• advanced

• free matching service to bring together learners who are studying each other's language to communicate in realtime using both text and voice with Yahoo Messenger

Writing Centre Handouts

from University of Columbia

• intermediate

• advanced

designed for native speakers but very useful for ESL students too

• style

• summary writing

• critiques

• avoiding plagiarism

Writing at the University of Toronto

• intermediate

• advanced

• very useful guides