Online resources for good writing: essays; reports; making Presentations etc

Simon Hunt

This guide is a distillation, mainly based on a page of WebLinks maintained by Prof Peter Cook at http://users.path.ox.ac.uk/~pcook/w1/w1dict.htm
Title
The Guide to
Grammar and
Writing

By
Prof Charles Darling,
Hartford Connecticut

URL
http://www.ccc.comm
net.edu/grammar/

Writing
Guidelines for
Engineering and
Science Students
Taking an Essay
Exam

Michael Alley et al,

Virginia Tech

http://filebox.vt.edu/e
ng/mech/writing/

Writing Tutorial
Services, Indiana
Univ, Bloomington,
USA

http://www.indiana.e
du/~wts/pamphlets/es
say_exam.shtml

The Kings
English
Library
Catalogues and
Library
Information
Oxford English
Dictionary
Rogets
Thesaurus

H.W. Fowler

http://www.bartleby.c
om/116/
http://www.bodley.ox
.ac.uk/oxlip/index.ht
ml

Plagiarism

Avoiding
Plagiarism
Some common
confusions

The Editors of the

American Heritage
Dictionaries
Writing Tutorial
Services, Indiana
Univ, Bloomington,
USA
Student Judicial
Affairs, UCDavis,
USA

Comment - SVH
Covers all levels of writing skills. Improve your
basic grammar,paragraph structure, principles of
composition, and so on. Online self-testing to
gain practice. Very well indexed.
Covers writing of many different styles of
document letters, lab reports, presentations,
research proposals, and so on, but not specifically
essays. Includes online self-test exercises.
Covers similarities and differences between exam
essays and tutorial or other essays. Includes
interpretations of commands commonly-used in
question.
Classic reference work on English Usag, now
online.
Gateway to Electronic Information resources of
all kinds available to Oxford students

http://dictionary.oed.c
om/entrance.dtl
http://www.bartleby.c
om/62/

The definitive guide to the origins and meanings

of words
To find a synonym improving your choice of the
right word to convey your meaning

http://www.indiana.e
du/~wts/pamphlets/pl
agiarism.shtml

Helps to define when you must give credit

(references and so on) for material that you write
which is based on someone elses ideas.

http://sja.ucdavis.edu/
avoid.htm

Take steps to recognise and avoid unfair

plagiarism.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/wh
ich.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizz
es/affect_except_options.htm

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which and that in subordinate clauses

effect and affect

03 March 2015

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