Dear All,
one of the important aspects of learning for you to keep learning and be able to do is to gain new knowledge and skills and be able to do it independently. One of the paths to reach this goal is to have a good idea about the tools and resources that are available and be able to use them when necessary. This course will finish in May, but you should continue improving your writing skills to reach the level of mastery. So with the view of this in mind, here is the task for you to do today.
You need to find a website which is devoted to some aspect of Writing in English. It could be a website that contains information about one of the following things
1. The process of writing
2. Some tasks to help you improve your writing
3. A website that discusses the elements of style
4. Some fun stuff that will help you to get motivated to write
5. Some resource about advanced vocabulary for writing
6. Some resource about the Mechanics of writing
7. Some resource about the element of writing of your choice
Once you have chosen it, explain why you found it useful and interesting, give us some details about the website for us to have a clear idea about its content and provide some examples of it.
Add how your peers can benefit from using it.
one of the important aspects of learning for you to keep learning and be able to do is to gain new knowledge and skills and be able to do it independently. One of the paths to reach this goal is to have a good idea about the tools and resources that are available and be able to use them when necessary. This course will finish in May, but you should continue improving your writing skills to reach the level of mastery. So with the view of this in mind, here is the task for you to do today.
You need to find a website which is devoted to some aspect of Writing in English. It could be a website that contains information about one of the following things
1. The process of writing
2. Some tasks to help you improve your writing
3. A website that discusses the elements of style
4. Some fun stuff that will help you to get motivated to write
5. Some resource about advanced vocabulary for writing
6. Some resource about the Mechanics of writing
7. Some resource about the element of writing of your choice
Once you have chosen it, explain why you found it useful and interesting, give us some details about the website for us to have a clear idea about its content and provide some examples of it.
Add how your peers can benefit from using it.
https://www.grammarly.com/?affiliateNetwork=ho&affiliateID=1858&utm_source=program
ReplyDeleteThe website which I found useful for improving writing skills is "Grammarly". This resource helps to check what you have written and summarise the most common mistakes you have. Also, it helps to check a text on plagiarism. Moreover, it helps to broaden your vocabulary with different suggestions for different types of texts.
From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate errors and find the perfect words to express yourself.
N. Yu.: Yulia, can you add some examples of content available on this website? Maybe choose smth that you can use now and/or in the future
DeleteIt is an additional tool to your browser, which corrects your grammar, punctuation, formality, spelling and conciseness mistakes. For example, it provides you with better word choice, removes redundant words etc. It can help you with:
DeleteBetter Word Pairs
Wordiness
Commonly Confused Words
Misspelled Words
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DeleteYulia,I find it very useful and necessary as this website gives us an opportunity to learn how to write grammatically correct. Does it give us also explanation of our mistakes?
Deleteyes, it gives a grammar rule for each mistake you have
Deletehttps://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
ReplyDeleteI chose the Purdue Online Writing Lab because I found it enough useful for improving writing skills.It includes different styles of writing from general writing to job search writing. There are a lot of information about the process of writing, grammar, punctuation etc. Also this site offers different exercises which help to improve writing skills.
This site is very huge, and you, actually, need some time to understand where you can find information, which you need, and what kind of info. However, after searching for a lot of sections and links here, I found this site very useful because, as Dasha has written, there are a lot of information about the process of writing, grammar and so on. For exapmle, they even have a section devoted to English as the Second Language (for students and for teachers as well).
DeleteIt's a very useful website. I found many articlers connected with writing. I've read some tips for how to start a writing assignment. The article is really interesting and helpful. I'm sure this site will help me to improve my skills.
DeleteDasha,
Deleteplease, add some more specific details about one of the sections of the website that you think would be more useful for your peers and you to use?
https://writingwithrasmus.com/2018/08/16/writing-resources-pt-2-the-mechanics/
ReplyDeleteI found this web-site about some tips for mechanics of writing very useful. It is called Writing With Rasmus, where you can find a lot other serious resources such as Books and E-books, Websites and so on. Here you have a huge possibility to find a resource which can help exactly you!
Also the author of this article describes each resourse and express his or her own opinion about it, so it is very useful and helpful for you to choose the right resource
DeleteNastya, I think you find really useful website. There are a lot of links for different websites connected with writing (e.g. websites about The Punctuation Guide, Title Capitalization Tool, Helping Writers Become Authors, etc). The author tells us about different interesting books that could be useful.
DeleteNastya,
Deletethanks for writing an overview of this website, however it would be useful if you added some more specific details about the section of this website that you think would be very useful for your peers and you to have an idea about
For example, the author says that he always suggests the book called On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, but at the same time he says that the book How Fiction Works by James Wood is very heavy to read and "you have to devote a lot of brain power to this one, but if you do, it is what I like to call a Gold Mine". So he gives you pieces od advice which could help you to save your time in choosing the resource.
Deletehttps://bit.ly/2FK5idY
ReplyDeleteThis website has plenty of tips for writing in English. Some of the useful and rare ones are references to literature, usage of different abbreviations and rules of business letters. A bit of grammar adds great value.
Max,
Deletethanks for this brief information. It is useful but you should add some more specific details about this resource as well as explain why you recommend it
I recommend this website because it has basically most if not all of the tips of writing in English. Moreover, the design is quite simple but it is easy to catch an eye on.
Deletehttps://www.ieltspodcast.com/ielts-vocabulary/lexical-resource/
ReplyDeleteThis website is very useful for improving our vocabulary. There are some different lists for different topics. Also we can find ways to learn vocabulary fast.
Rima,
DeleteThis is N. Yu. I did not log out from Yana's account to save some time.
I know you have problems accessing your account but now they are solved. I think you should add more specific information about the website, such as some topics covered, the level of difficulty, who can benefit the most from it. It'd be useful if you completed an activity of your choice from this website and share your impressions about it
This website shows IELTS speaking vocabulary and some specific vocabulary (e.g. sport, employment, health, law etc.)We can find some really useful words and collocations. There are some dialogues that shows contexts. This site works with Quizlet https://quizlet.com/8898062/academic-word-list-1-with-pictures-flash-cards/ It helps us to learn by heart this vocabulary. We can find some bonus resources. There are a number of connectors in the English Language and https://www.ieltspodcast.com/ielts-vocabulary/lexical-resource/ tells about it. I think I will use this website. I want you to look at this website and find useful information
DeleteSpeaking category is one of the most important ones. The reason is that students have some problems with listening and speaking. This category contains some articles and audio files. I found it really useful.
Deletehttps://bit.ly/2FXQ59p
ReplyDeleteThis website is great for those who want to improve their writing skills in English. it contains a bunch of sections devoted to the topics like writing rules (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, etc.), interactive stuff like english usage videos, and even quizzes. To have a wider range of all the things mentioned above, you can subscribe or order a specially proposed book.
The site Roman has represented is really great!It contains lots of information about puctuation and proper grammar rules to help us enhance our writing skills. The information is presented with very simple language what helps beginners to understand all information. I found out the page with
Deleteeffective writing tips and after reading it I got really useful information. What excites me as well is the fact that information is presented concisely but wisely.
Besides, it seems to me that this site has a mobile app which is so convenient today as we always have a kind of reliable resource with us.
What maked me sad is that I was eager to try some quiz but it costs a lot of money and demands to subscribe. Well, there's no such thing as a free lunch
https://www.inklyo.com/blog/
ReplyDeleteI found a very interesting website which can help me to improve my writing skills. You can find disserent categories of articles such as "Grammar", "Letter writing", "blogging", "Academic writing", etc.
https://www.inklyo.com/category/grammar/ <- Here, for example, you can find some typical preposition phrases which are always helpful for writing.
There are many useful articles in which people share their experience in writing and blogging. Also, there are some inspiring and just interesting for reading essays there.
Website has a very nice, simple design and structure which let you easily find the necessary information.
Hello, Nastya:) I've checked the site which you recommend us. To tell you the truth, I find it very interesting and, what is more important, very useful. You see, it has a huge amount of options. Especially I enjoy this part of the site: https://www.inklyo.com/category/books-and-creative-writing/ Here we may find app which help to improve our writing skills. Isn't it cool? Because now our phones are always at hand, so we may use the apps at any time.
DeleteThe resource I found very useful to improve writing skills is "GoodToos". This website is a multipurpose helper which provides you with the information about mechanics of writing. There you can find punctuation rules,usage of common terms in computer documentation, and check the capitalization.
ReplyDeleteThe resourse helps to understand some stylistic principles and even teaches how to choose your own style of writing.
http://goodtools.net/pages/SUNstyle/
I am really interested in some aspect that you have given to us. In my opinion, the crucial one for me is advanced vocabulary for writing.
ReplyDeleteI advise you to follow these websites: https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/words-phrases-good-essays.html https://www.ielts-mentor.com/49-ielts-vocabulary/vocabulary-for-academic-ielts-writing-task-2/530-vocabulary-for-academic-ielts-writing-task-2-part-1 https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/words-phrases-good-essays.html in order to enrich your vocabulary and to equip you with the words and phrases to write a perfect essay. There you can find introductory words and vocabulary C1. These websites are simple to use. I hope you like it.
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ReplyDeletehttps://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/index.html
ReplyDeleteI have chosen this site as it contains so much useful information about everything concerning mastering writing. There are some tips not only for those who learn English, but for teachers of ESL as well. The site covers such themes like Writer’s block, development of an outline, thesis writing, proofreading, etc which is important to know for every writer
Polina, thank you for sharing this website! It really contains so much information which can help us to improve our writing skills.
Deletehttps://www.time4writing.com/
ReplyDeleteThis site seems to me very interesting. It has different aspects for studying. And each aspect consists of 3 parts: theoretical material, some exercises and games for improving new material.
Yulia, thank you for sharing this information! This website combines different aspects which are crucial for making our writing better!
DeleteIt's important to know different ways of writing. I've found some websites related to this purpose: http://www.wilbers.com/style.htm https://writerswrite.co.za/10-elements-of-writing-style/
ReplyDeleteIt helps writers to choose their own style. There's some information about how to write, using colorful vocabulary, creating rhythm and emphasis by balancing the components of your sentence. Also, it includes eight “elementary rules of usage”, ten “elementary principles of composition”, “a few matters of form”, a list of 49 “words and expressions commonly misused”. Websites are very simple and useful.
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ReplyDeleteDear All,
ReplyDeleteI have read all your comments and can say that as a result of you reading the information your peers have presented first and also you checking it yourselves, you have been able to provide sufficient amount of information to have a good idea about the websites' content. From which my advice is for all of you to consider what you write about from a larger number of perspectives, which can help you penetrate in the heart of the issues you write about.
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