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Writing Links
- Free writing lessons
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- Editing and checking your paper, UC-Berkeley
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Writing Den's Essays Page
- Biography maker
- Ohio U.'s Writing resources page
- Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
- Write for an ESL/EFL student publication, Exchange (Univ. of Illinois)
- Ruth Vilmi's Writing Help page
- Writing Academic Essays
- Writing Research Essays in North American
- Erlyn Baack's Advanced Composition page
- Writing Successful College Admissions essays
- Letter- writing resources, Englishforums.com
- Writing guidelines for engineering and science students
- Sign posts for writers
- Writing for special purposes (Ohio U.) - essay exams, etc.
- Exercises from Connections, a writing textbook
- Advice on Writing, Univ. Toronto
- The nuts and bolts of college writing
- Academic Reading and Writing Exercises
Writing Labs
Writing Exchange
APA and Style Links
- APA citation and reference guide
- APA Online's Electronic References page
- APA style resources
- Citation Guides for APA and MLA
- Citing sources, all styles, Duke Univ.
- Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online
- Citation and Reference in APA, William Paterson Univ. page
- Citation of online sources, same source
- Online Style Manuals, Ithaca College
- Bedford St. Martins APA
- Virtual Reference Desk
Writing strategies
- Irene Thompson's Writing Strategies
Avoiding plagiarism
- Plagiarism and how to avoid it, David Gardner, Univ. of Hong Kong
- Plagiarism, Tufts Univ.
- What is Plagiarism and how to avoid it, Writing Tutorial Services, Univ. of Indiana
Grammar and explanations
- CESL grammar links
- Punctuation, Writing Den
- Frequently confused words, Writing Den
- Common errors in English usage
Spelling
- Spelling for ESL Students (manythings.org)
- E. L. Easton's Spelling Page
- Rules and suggestions about spelling, Comnet
- Susan Jones' spelling rules
- BBC's Skillswise (British)
Writing on the internet
Poetry
- Poemfinder
- Can you Haiku?
- Haiku in English, why it's popular in Japan
Haiku for People Poetry resources online
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