Writing

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
 
Type Racer The global typing competition. Increase your typing speed while racing against others

Writing Exercises for Beginners
 
Jumbled Sentences 200 Exercises for beginners to practice creating 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
 
Academic Writing Guide Structure of an academic paper, and 6 typical styles of academic papers
 
Essay Structure Basic essay structure, and structure of essays of all different kinds
 
Essay Scoring Criteria Use the scoring guide to score each of your essays. They are also the scoring criteria for instructors to use
 
Correction Symbols Common symbols instructors may use to indicate errors in your essays
 
Basic Paragraph Structure Detailed discussion of the topic sentence, body sentences, and the concluding sentence
 
Writing Resources 150 resources to help you write better, faster, and more persuasively
 
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
 
Writing Guides - CSU Colorado State University's online learning environment, an online textbook
 
Essay Info Basics of essay writing, writing tips, essay types, citation styles, and so on
 
Writing: How to Write English Texts Punctuation, essays, and business letters
 
English the Easy Way Improve your writing skills, including help with writing a resume and cover letters
 
Christmas Cards Verses Good Christmas cards verses for you to choose from to send to your friends and loved ones

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
 
Common Errors in English Usage The site explains some of the most commonly misused and misunderstood aspects of English
 
Students' Essays Learning from mistakes of other ESL/EFL writers

Essay Topics
 
Personal Essay Ideas A list of interesting personal essay topics
 
50 Argument Essay Topics Good topics for your essay, speech, or debate
 
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

Format & Styles
 
APA Style Official website of the American Psychological Association.
 
Technical Writing Resources for writing reports and scientific abstracts, and business letters
 
Web Style Guide An unabridged, online version of the third edition of Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton

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
 
Corpus of American Soap Operas The corpus contains 100 million words in more than 22,000 transcripts of ten American soap operas from 2001 and 2012