Resources

From Fall 2017 Class

• Transition Words
• Past Tenses Handout
• Articles & Determiners

General Sites

• Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Purdue University  OWL Exercises
• Englishpage.com
• ESLFlow Academic Writing Guides
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• Advice on Academic Writing
• My-English-Writing.com
• The Writing Center - University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Writing Resources for English Language Learners - Ohio University ESL
• Writer's Web - University of Richmond
• Hypertext Writer's Guide - University of Victoria
• Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English
• E. L. Easton - Writing
• Rong Chang Writing
• Academic English Cafe
• Collocation Worksheets
  Google + Communities
• Let's Speak English - Writing

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Specific Writing Tips

Purdue's Online Writing Lab has an extensive range of guides about various aspects of writing. 

Purdue OWL Site Map

Selected Guides 
• Punctuation
• Parallel Structure
• Help with Capitals
• Writing Numbers
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Verb Tense Consistency
   
• Separable Phrasal Verbs
• Inseparable Phrasal Verbs
• Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
  More Phrasal Verb Examples & Explanation

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Writing Paragraphs

Resources
From OWL - What is a paragraph? - Tutorials: Paragraph Structure, Paragraph Development & Concluding Paragraph
Mountain City's The Structure of a Paragraph

Activities
From Bogazici University OWL - Paragraph Writing Exercises
Cengage - Writing Effective Paragraph Exercises (practice tests)

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Activities

From Englishpage.com

Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs

• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 1
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 2
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 3
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 4
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 5

• Mixed Prepositions 1
• Mixed Prepositions 2
• Mixed Prepositions 3
• Mixed Prepositions 4
• Mixed Prepositions 5
• Mixed Prepositions 6

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OWL Exercises

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• Grammar Exercises
• Adjective or Adverb Exercise 1
• Adjective or Adverb Exercise 2
• Appositive Exercise
• A or An? Exercise
• Articles Exercise 1
• Articles Exercise 2
• Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 1
• Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 2
• Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 3
• Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 4
• Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 5
• Quantity Terms Exercise
• Prepositions of Direction Exercise
• Tense Consistency Exercise 1
• Tense Consistency Exercise 2
• Tense Consistency Exercise 3
• Tense Consistency Exercise 4
• Punctuation Exercises
• Punctuation Exercise

• Apostrophes Exercise
• Quotation Marks Exercise
• Comma Exercise 1
• Comma Exercise 2
• Comma Exercise 3
• Comma Exercise 4
• Comma Exercise 5
• After Introductions Exercise 1
• After Introductions Exercise 2
• After Introductions Exercise 3
• Commas vs. Semicolons - Compound Sentences
• Nonessential Elements Exercise 1
• Nonessential Elements Exercise 2
• Nonessential Elements Exercise 3
• Spelling Exercises
• -ible and -able Spelling Exercise 1
• -ible and -able Spelling Exercise 2
• Accept/Except Spelling Exercise
• Affect/Effect Spelling Exercise
• EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 1

• EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 2
• EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 3
• EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 4
• Sentence Structure
• Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses Exer
• Sentence Fragments Exercise 1
• Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
• Sentence Fragments Exercise 3
• Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences
• Subject and Verb Agreement Exercise
• Sentence Style
• Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 1
• Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 2
• Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 3
• Paraphrasing
• Paraphrasing Exercise
• Writing Numbers

Writing Numbers Exercise

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Writing Paragraphs - Resources & Activities

Activities
From Bogazici University OWL - Paragraph Writing Exercises
Cengage - Writing Effective Paragraph Exercises (practice tests)

Resources
From OWL - What is a paragraph? - Tutorials: Paragraph Structure, Paragraph Development  & Concluding Paragraph
Mountain City's The Structure of a Paragraph