by Lorrie Ross, Lawrence (Larry) Barkley, Ted Blake
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Hi Fellow students
I'll be sorry to leave you to pursue other courses but I've enjoyed being here enormously. Some students may have been helped by the links listed here. However, if any of you have missed them, I'm posting them here so that you can access them for English language learning (it's much easier if they are all in one place):
MORE WRITING COURSES (MOOCS)
1. Writing for the Web: https://www.open2study.com/courses/writing-for-the-web
2. The Future of Storytelling: https://iversity.org/c/6?r=3be08 (access to videos even if you are late to enrol)
3. English Composition I: https://www.coursera.org/course/composition
4. First Year Composition 2.0: https://www.coursera.org/course/gtcomp
5. Principles of Written English: https://www.edx.org/course/berkeley/colwri2-1x/college-writing-2-1x-principles/1194
6. This course: https://www.coursera.org/course/basicwriting will be offered again in Spring. Just add yourself to the Watchlist to be notified when it starts: ****************
Useful links for English Writing
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/ - (General\business English)
7. Open2Studies short little video course on writing for the web
8. Dr. Jakob Nielson's work on writing for the web
You must scroll down to see the contents of this guide and click "Next" at bottom of page to see the entire guide.
10. Free Online Dictionary: http://dictionary.reference.com/
11. Also: http://www.merriam-webster.com/
12. A self-paced program of videos and exercises for learning English grammar:
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Targeted help
- Types of sentences: http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/writing/forms/Kinds%20of%20Sentences.pdf
- Types of Clauses: http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/writing/forms/Types%20of%20Clauses.pdf
- Tips for writing effective titles: http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/quicktips/titles.pdf
- Tips on how to punctuate Titles: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Punctuating_Titles_chart.pdf
- For organizing your writing: http: //writingcommons.org/process/organize
- Conciseness: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/572/1/
- Paramedic method for conciseness: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/635/01/
- Organizational Patterns in Academic Writing: http://valenciacollege.edu/wp/cssc/documents/OrganizationalPatternsinAcademicWriting.pdf
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Online Tools that you can use:
1) To check for number of words, sentences, readability, etc: http://wordcounttools.com/
2) To check if your composition is concise: http://www.writersdiet.com/WT.php
2) To check if your composition is concise: http://www.writersdiet.com/WT.php
3) Free online Grammar, spelling, proofreading checker: http://www.paperrater.com/
4) To check for plagiarism: http://www.plagaware.com
5) You can use a lot of tools to build your own journal:
d. Google Doc
e. MS Word
6) Free Mind mapping software: http://www.xmind.net/
7) Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and systems: https://gephi.org/
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Other useful links:
· The BBC does a good site for Learning English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/
· Business English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/talkingbusiness/
· Purdue Online Writing Lab has good resources for English as a second Language Students (ESL) – Click on the Navigation panel on the left-hand side of the website page to see the full menu: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/974/2/
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Please write down your own useful links on this thread for others to see as we're all here to help each other learn. Thank you. :)
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因為大學英文唯一沒練到的就是寫作，所以得加倍學習才能補回來，
分享給一起想要學英文的人。
分享給一起想要學英文的人。
