ACADEMIC DISCOURSE:
WEBSITES FOR SELF-STUDY
NOTETAKING
Lecture notes
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/Lectures.htm#LectureNotes
Reading and notes
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/Reading.htm
Records and note-making
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/Records.htm
ACADEMIC GENRES
Genres and functions in academic writing (includes exercises)
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/ and click on Functions
Writing argumentative essays (includes tasks)
http://www.eslplanet.com/teachertools/argueweb/chlcare.htm
ACADEMIC STYLE
Academic writing style (includes exercises)
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/ and click on Features
Improving your writing style
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/style.html
Passive voice
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/passivevoice.html
Qualification
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/academicwriter/argument/qualifying.htm
Qualifying your arguments (Quiz)
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/AcademicWriter/Quizzes2/qualifying.htm
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PLAGIARISM
Your own words, quotations, plagiarism
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/copy.htm
Avoiding plagiarism
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/
and click on Plagiarism
On plagiarism
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml
PARAPHRASING, SUMMARISING, QUOTING
Reporting: Paraphrase, summary and synthesis (includes exercises)
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/
and click on Reporting
Quotation, paraphrase and summary (explanation and exercises from various sites)
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/help/quotation.html
Citing sources (includes exercises)
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/citation/citefram.htm
How to quote (handout)
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/quotations.htm
Paraphrasing: When and how (includes examples)
http://www.the-bac.edu/writingcenter/wctipsheets/Paraphrasing/paraphrasing.html
DOCUMENTATION
THE APA DOCUMENTATION STYLE (Linguistics)
Write a bibliography list using APA (includes exercises)
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/referenc/reffram.htm
Reference guidelines – APA format
http://slc.otago.ac.nz/studyskills/ch4sect12.asp
THE MLA DOCUMENTATION STYLE (Literature)
Reference guidelines – MLA format
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
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ANSWERING EXAM QUESTIONS
Understanding the question
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/
and click on Questions
Organising the answer
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/
and click on Organisation
WRITING IN LITERATURE COURSES
Writing about Literature / Writing a paper in fiction
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature.html
ACADEMIC WRITING
Advice about academic writing
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/Essays0.htm
Paragraph writing
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/
and click on Paragraphs
Paragraph development
http://www.ashland.edu/stuserv/writing/para.html
Writing introductions
http://cstw.ohio-state.edu/writing_center/handouts/introductions.htm
How to write a good introduction
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/writing-lab/gohow_to_write_a_good_.html
How to organise a paper
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/writing-lab/how_to_effectively_o.html
Creating an essay outline
http://slc.otago.ac.nz/studyskills/ch4sect5.asp
Editing and proofreading
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/proofread.html
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WRITING ON A COMPUTER
Learn how to write on a computer (includes interactive tasks)
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/bewrite.htm
Writing with computers (useful information)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_computer.html
SPELLING
Some useful theoretical points
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/spellx.htm
(what this site calls “unusual spelling” is just British English spelling!)
Theory and practice
http://www.uefap.co.uk/writing/
and click on Spelling
Spelling Quiz
http://writingcenter.english.swt.edu/GSP/ASP/quiz_spelling.asp
PUNCTUATION
Reviews, exercises and quizzes
http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/punct/punct.html
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvpunct.html
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvaddpct.html
http://www.sdc.uwo.ca/writing/owlhandout/grammar/virtual_classroom.htm
Punctuation Quiz
http://writingcenter.english.swt.edu/GSP/quiz_punc.asp
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VOCABULARY: STUDY AND PRACTICE
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/class/material/quiz/#vocab
http://www.uefap.co.uk/links/links.htm
Click on: Vocabulary -> Academic word list -> Most frequent words -> Sublists 1-10
http://www.uefap.co.uk/links/links.htm
Go to: Grammar, Click on: Activities for ESL Students -> Vocabulary Quizzes
http://www.uefap.co.uk/links/links.htm
Click on: Vocabulary -> Interesting things for ESL students
Suggested further click-ons: Quizzes, Vocabulary Study, Word Puzzles
GRAMMAR
Some useful theoretical points
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
Click on: Word and sentence level, Paragraph level
A site on Parallelism
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/SentParallel.html
A site on Cohesion
http://slc.otago.ac.nz/studyskills//ch4sect10.asp
http://condor.depaul.edu/~writing/resources.html
(Suggested click-ons: Handouts -> Modals, Verb tenses)
Hit Parade of Errors in Style, Grammar and Punctuation
http://www.utoronto.ca/hswriting/hitparade.htm
Practice your grammar with interactive exercises!
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/class/material/quiz/#grammar
http://www.uefap.co.uk/links/links.htm
Go to: Grammar, click on: Activities for ESL Students -> Grammar Quizzes
http://www.sdc.uwo.ca/writing/owlhandout/grammar/virtual_classroom.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
Click on: Ask Grammar, Quizzes, Search Resources -> 170+ Interactive Quizzes
Self-study grammar quizzes
http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html
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ONLINE DICTIONARIES, THESAURUSES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Cambridge Dictionaries
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Collins WordbanksOnline
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html
The Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus is composed of 56 million words of
contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the type of linguistic data that a
corpus like this can provide, you can type in some simple queries here and get a display
of concordance lines from the corpus.
Columbia Encyclopaedia.
http://www.slider.com/enc/index.htm
Encarta Encyclopaedia
http://encarta.msn.com/products/deluxe/cancel.asp?pageid=2
English synonyms
http://wl.ebolaget.com/Contents/EnSearch.asp
Roget’s International Thesaurus of English words and Phrases
http://www.bartleby.com/110/
The Phrase Finder
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/index.html
The Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
One Look Dictionary
http://www.onelook.com/
Visual Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.plumbdesign.com/index.jsp
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/62/
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
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The Dict Development Group: Online Dictionary Database Query
http://www.dict.org/
Newbury House Dictionary of American English
http://nhd.heinle.com/
Wordnet
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT)
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
Greek-English-Greek dictionary
http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon
Specialised dictionaries and glossaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction4a.html#dialect
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