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Buzzin.net - writing
You can find explanations of writing. For every topic, you can do a test to see if you have fully understood. (Last updated date: 29 Aug 2008)
Writing Tips
Some basic English writing tips shared online. (Last updated date: 20 Aug 2008)
Common Mistakes
The website points out a lot of common mistakes that the spell checkers will not pick them up. (Last updated date: 13 Aug 2008)
Writing Style and Examples
The website teaches hoe to write and gives some writing examples as well as quizzes. (Last updated date: 8 Aug 2008)
Purdue Online Writing Lab - ESL Instructors and Students
The website includes writing guidelines suitable for secondary school*s students and teachers. It talks about writing process, rhetoric and logic, different kinds of essay genres, style and language and citation. (Last updated date: 30 Jul 2008)
Writing- Online Skill Practice
The online practices are lessons and practice pages written by teachers. The webmaster wrote a lot of the online activities below as part of the Oswego City School District's Test Prep Website. (Last updated date: 30 Jul 2008)
REFERENCE TOOLS - Writing Tips
Before you actually begin to write you need to think and plan. First you will go through the process of pre-writing in order to generate ideas and focus your subject. Then you will plan and organize your ideas for a paragraph. When you are ready you will prepare your first draft. Finally, you will revise and edit your first draft and write the final draft. Students may get access to other levels. (Last updated date: 25 Jul 2008)
Common Sentence Problems
In this article, several common problems are introduced. Sentence fragments, run-on sentences and comma splices, the passive voice, lack of subject-verb agreement, shifts in pronoun usage and tense, and lack of parallelism are all writing problems that need to be understood so that you can avoid them in your own writing. (Last updated date: 25 Jul 2008)
Homework Center: Writing Skills — FactMonster.com
Good writing skills are essential for effective communication. Learning to write well takes time and practice. Be sure to leave yourself enough time for all of these steps. In this website you can find some writing prompts, guideline of writing a speech, a story, a letter a book report. (Last updated date: 15 Jul 2008)
Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide
"Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide, an online textbook in basic writing, offers students three approaches to becoming more confident writers. Part One examines how sentences work, giving students a structural understanding of the language they use every day. Part Two focuses on errors that commonly appear in written English. Part Three suggests techniques and topics for developing ideas in writing. Students may move back and forth among parts, using the resources collected in Part Four as support. (Last updated date: 23 Jun 2008)