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.

Writing Exercises

• Jumbled Sentences. 200 Exercises for beginners to practice creating English sentences.
• Dictation Exercises. Online dictation to help improve your listening and writing skills.
• Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
• Verb Tenses and Scrambled Sentences. Practice creating sentences in different verb tenses.

Free-writing Practice

• Free Writing Guidelines. Principles and suggestions for free writing.

Writing Guides

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. A lot of information about how to write informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, and exploratory essays.
• ESL Bee. For high intermediate or advanced English learners who have never taken a formal English writing course.
• Basic Paragraph Structure. Detailed discussion of the topic sentence, body sentences, and the concluding sentence.
• The 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.
• Online Guide to Writing and Research. University of Maryland University College (UMUC) prvides this site, like an online writing textbook.
• Writing Studio. Colorado State University's online learning environment, the Writing Studio.
• Best Essay Tips. A student-oriented source for dealing with difficulties in writing.
• 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.
• Five Paragraph Essay. Strong academic presentation with suggestions, outlines, and samples.

Common Mistakes

• Common Mistakes. A collection of some of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused and easily misused words.
• Students' Essays. Learning from mistakes of other ESL/EFL writers.

Essay Topics

• Good Essay Topics. A collection of great topics for your college paper or essay, and 10 tips for choosing a thrilling essay Topic.
• Writing worksheets. Hundreds of writing topics provide teachers with meaningful writing tasks.

Format & Styles

• APA Style. Official website of the American Psychological Association.
• Technical Writing. An online textbook for technical writing. It's also a good online reference book.
• Web Style Guide. Yale online design manual dealing with Web design principles and various Web design issues.
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers. Based on styles recommended by the American Psychological Association in question-and-answer format.
• Writing for the Web. Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write.

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.