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How to write argument and opinion essays for IELTS and TOEFL for ESL students

Writer's Handbook - Documentation Styles (The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
The major documentation styles. How to give credit to sources.

Writer's Handbook - Planning and Writing a Research Paper (The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Outline, Introduction, Body, Conclusion, Revising, ...

Writer's Handbook - Writing Business Letters (The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Writing Cover Letters, Business Letter Format

Write stories together with fellow writers from all over the world

It's an old site but still very well-used and still free.

Jump right to the topics page if you like.

Writing Den's Tips-o-matic (ACT360 Media Ltd.)
Look up grammar rules, helper words and other tips.

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Writing Tips

Use the Writing Tips Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This Handbook offers advice on various elements of the writing process. To go directly to a specific topic, click on the appropriate item in the following index.

 General Tips
 Audience
 Body Paragraphs
 Comma Use
 Editing Principles
 Parallelism
 Quotations
 Thesis Statements
 Transitions
 Writers' Block 

 Genre-specific Tips
 Abstracts
 Cover Letters
 Literature Papers
 Personal Statement
 Proposals 
 Resumes
 Summaries

Exam Tips
 In-class Essay Exams
 Standardized Test Essay Exams

From the Poet's Hand


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Writing English

 

 

Writing English can be very tricky. These pages will help improve your spelling and instruct you about the correct use of punctuation.
An example...
they're / their / there
They're, spelled t-h-e-y-'-r-e, is the contracted or shortened form of they are.
Example: They're going to knock down the building.
Their, the possessive pronoun used to express that something belongs to a group of people is spelled t-h-e-i-r.
Example: They're going to knock down their building.
There, All other uses of there use the t-h-e-r-e spelling, and mean: in or at that place.
Example: They're going to knock down their building over there by the river.

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