Useful Links
Proofreading
Guidelines for proofreading your essays
Interesting
quizzes to tell if you are a good proofreader
Proofreading skills
‘The Issue of Proofreading
in In-sessional English Language Support’
Nottingham Language Centre, Nottingham Trent University
Academic writing
Academic Support, University of Nottingham
Basic writing skills, BBC
Centre for Academic and
Professional Literacies, University of London
Centre of English Language Education,
University of Nottingham
Centre for English
Language Teacher Education (CELTE), University of Warwick
School of Combined Studies, University
of Hertfordshire
Academic grammar
English Centre, University of Hong Kong
Is a website on academic assignments specially designed for ESL students of the
Arts and Social Sciences.
University of Wollongong
Lists a comprehensive range of interactive resources on some essential writing
and study skills required at university.
Academic phrasebank
University of Manchester
Lists a 'bank' of language useful for academic writing.
Academic vocabulary
School of Linguistics
and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
AWL (Academic Word List), devised by Averil Coxhead, shows the most frequently occurring
member of the word family in the Academic Corpus.
Corpora concordance
Corpora4learning
Gives a comprehensive introduction to tools and websites on corpus linguistics.
British National Corpus
The Collins Wordbanks Online
English Corpus
Composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text, this site
provides a concordance sampler and displays concordance lines for your query.
Writing tools
Endnote
Punctuation
ARIES (Assisted Revision in English
Style)
Includes useful explanations of punctuation and spelling.
Plagiarism
‘Plagiarism and How to Avoid it’
English Centre, University of Hong Kong