Academic writing
Links and tools with focus on academic writing
Tool to give feedback on language in written assignments
This is a tool for teachers to give constructive feedback on language in students’ written assignments across the disciplines. The tool consists of a feedback rubric and a video that shows how to use the rubric.
LANGUAGE FEEDBACK, DANISH, ENGLISH
Purdue Online Writing Lab
The Purdue OWL is by far the best OWL and offers more than 200 resources online. It is your complete one-stop site and has excellent resources for all the categories listed below. Click on ‘Site Map’ at the top on the right to access the full contents list. Please note that links to ‘Dictionaries and manuals’ are found under ‘Research and Citations / Conducting Research.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ENGLISH
Ottawa University Hypergrammar
Recently updated, the HyperGrammar site at the University of Ottawa is one of the best "electronic grammar courses" available to the general public. Easy to navigate and concisely written, the HyperGrammar explains and illustrates grammatical concepts accurately and clearly.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ENGLISH
Capital Community College Foundation Guide to Grammar and Writing
The Guide to Grammar and Writing is a complete writing course online - and much more. One of the most useful features of the site is the abundance of self-tests and quizzes - all of which provide instant feedback. Note however that it is aimed at native English speaker writers, so some of the examples can appear unnecessarily complex.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ENGLISH
Trinity College Writing Center Online
Offers a number of excellent links to dictionaries and other writing resources.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ENGLISH
The ESLBEE.COM Online Academy
This includes a writing tutorial aimed at an audience of high intermediate or advanced EAP students and is generally good for non-native speakers of English. There are good examples of different text types written by students, focuses on process writing (good information for composing) and basic exercises to practise various grammar points.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ENGLISH
Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
Specifically addresses ESL academic writing. This gives you extensive textbook-quality advice about all aspects of writing in an academic environment. Also contains information on plagiarism.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ENGLISH
Free dictionary
Very comprehensive, accesses definitions from several other dictionaries.
DICTIONARY, ENGLISH
Gyldendals Danish/English dictionaries
The largest Danish-English/English-Danish dictionary, also includes an online version of the Oxford monolingual dictionary.
DICTIONARY, ENGLISH, DANISH
KU Lex
The University of Copenhagen dictionary of university terminology: for university technical terms, both Danish-English and English-Danish.
DICTIONARY, ENGLISH, DANISH
Merriam Webster online dictionaries
Includes a dictionary, thesaurus (synonym dictionary) and a medical dictionary.
DICTIONARY, ENGLISH
One Look Dictionary Search
Enables you to look up a word in several dictionaries at once, or to look up words that begin or end with the keyword, or to find a list of words and phrases related to the keyword.
DICTIONARY, ENGLISH
Phrasal verbs dictionary
Explains what phrasal verbs are, how to use them and has a comprehensive list of phrasal verbs with definitions and examples.
VOCABULARY, DICTIONARY, ENGLISH
Collocations dictionary
Enables you to look up which words commonly co-occur.
COLLOCATIONS, DICTIONARY, ENGLISH
Roane State Community College Online Writing Lab
Has some useful links for for example citation styles depending on whether you are studying within Humanities, Social Sciences, History or Sciences. There is a wide selection of different essay types including sample student essays.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ESSAYS, ENGLISH
Best Essay Tips
General advice on different types of essays and the various stages involved in essay writing.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ESSAYS, ENGLISH
The Essay writing Center
Very useful information on some 20 different types of essays.
ACADEMIC WRITING, ESSAYS, ENGLISH
EU English Style Guide
Very comprehensive handbook aimed at authors and translators in the European Commission. As such contains a lot of detail but is easy to navigate.
STYLE GUIDE, ENGLISH
KU English Style Guide
KU's much shorter version of the above.
STYLE GUIDE, ENGLISH
Academic word list
Includes all 10 of Averil Coxhead's academic word lists plus exercises and links to practice the words. Also features the ‘Academic word list highlighter' which allows you to copy and paste a text after which the programme will highlight all the academic vocabulary contained in the list.
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY, ENGLISH
English Club collocations
Has a very good explanation of what collocations are plus a variety of collocation exercises and quizzes. The site also provides links into other parts of www.englishclub.com which also contains useful information about grammar, punctuation, etc.
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY, ENGLISH
Using English for Academic Purposes
A good EAP site with among others the Academic Wordlist and a General Service List of English Words and exercises.
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY, ENGLISH
British National Corpus
A very simple-to-use corpus where you can find how a word or phrase is used in practice and how frequent it is in the corpus.
CORPUS, VOCABULARY, ENGLISH
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Feedback on writing
This is a tool for teachers to give constructive feedback on language in students’ written assignments across the disciplines. The tool consists of a feedback rubric and a video that shows how to use the rubric.