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General Writing

• MIT Very useful tutorials and activities for writing, includes a variety of skills.
• Elements of Style by Strunk and White. This is an old but very well respected writing style guide that gives useful information about how to and how not to word your writing.
• Purdue Online Writing Lab This is one of the oldest OWLS, and continues to be one of the best.

Research Writing

• APA Documentation
• AIT’s Style Guide for masters theses
• Strunk and White
• The King’s English by H. W. Fowler
• How to Write a PhD Thesis
• Writing the literature review Good description of how to write a literature review
• English Communication for Scientists The journal Nature provides this great resource on communication, including units on writing.
• Publish not Perish A useful tutorial on publication from the University of Colorado
• Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors
• Vocational Information Center
• Exams and Study – British Council
• Academic Report Writing
• Using English for Academic Purpose A Guide for Students in Higher Education
• The Utimate Grammar Resource Guide

Grammar Resources

• The Internet Grammar of English. The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university languages undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. It does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar.
• Grammar Quizzes A variety of grammar exercises, as well as vocabulary and sentence activities.
• http://esl.about.com/blgrammar.htm This web site offers clear, American English grammar explanation and practice exercises. Students can choose their own problem areas. There are also various grammar quizzes.
• http://www.grammarbook.com This web site offers clear advice on grammar and punctuation. The exercises are not very interactive. It’s more suitable for advanced learners and native speakers.
• BBC Grammar Challenge Explanations, podcasts, and exercises for many grammar topics.
• English Page Grammar and vocabulary exercises.
• Monash University Great tutorials about passive voice, verb tenses, and articles.
• University of Ottawa Comprehensive grammar information.
• English 4 U
• English Club

Vocabulary

• Academic English Vocabulary Exercises These exercises are mostly based on Nation’s Academic Word List.
• Academic English Vocabulary Exercises These exercises are based on Coxhead’s Academic Word List.
• A Word A Day

Listening

These websites have exercises to help you test your listening comprehension.

• Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
• ESOL Courses
• BBC Academic Listening

These websites have lots of interesting news stories to listen to for general listening practice.

• CBS News: UTTMlink
• NPR Online
• PBS ONLINE
• BBC radio

Speaking

These websites have speaking exercises with pronunciation tips.

• BBC Learning English
• Phonetics: The Sounds of Spoken Language

Online search engines and useful relevant site

Language tools

DICTIONARIES

• Merriam-Webster
• Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
• Science Dictionary
• Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing

THESAURUSES

• Thesaurus.com
• Merriam-Webster

MISCELLANEOUS

• Cliche Finder: A cliche is an overused expression, and should not be used in academic writing.  Use this resource if you don’t know if you are using a cliche or not.
• LOGOS Multilingual Translation